Sec. 2.
Before any manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or distribute in Michigan any live stock remedies, the manufacturer thereof shall file with the commissioner of agriculture a sworn certificate stating: First, name and principal address of the manufacturer or person responsible for placing such live stock remedy on the market; second, the name, brand, or trade mark under which the remedy is to be sold; third, the minimum net contents of the package, lot or parcel of such live stock remedy (expressed by weight in the case of solids and by measure in the case of liquids); and fourth, the English name of each ingredient used in the manufacture of remedy registered: And it is further provided, That when any of the substances, to-wit: Mineral acids; the following elements or their salts,—copper, mercury, lead, chromium, iodine, arsenic and antimony; the following substances or any of their derivatives or preparations,—opium, belladonna, nux vomica, pilocarpus, santonica, areca nut, wormwood, digitalis, strophanthus, calabar bean, aconite, veratrum, croton oil, ergot, cotton root bark, chenopodium, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulphide, potassium permanganate, phosphorus, and cantharides are included in the ingredients of a live stock remedy, the percentage of such ingredient or ingredients must be stated on the certificate; also that when such substances as common salt, charcoal, sulphur, earth, humus, elevator dust, coal, ashes, soda, oyster shells, oils, or other like substances are used as a “filler,” the maximum percentage of each such substance or substances shall be stated; said sworn certificate to be accompanied, when the commissioner of agriculture or his authorized agent shall so request, by a sealed package of such live stock remedy to be sold, offered or exposed for sale, or distributed in this state, and the company or person furnishing said sample shall thereupon make affidavit that the said sample is representative and a true sample of such live stock remedy offered for registration.
History: 1929, Act 134, Imd. Eff. May 7, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 5219 ;-- CL 1948, 287.142
Last modified: October 10, 2016