Chap. 376.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act
to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth
of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime sulphur
compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic
therein; providing for inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties
approved March 27, 1922. [S B 164}

Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eix of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture, sale or trans-
portation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded
Paris greens, lead arsenate, lime sulphur compounds, and other in-
secticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein; providing for
inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties, approved March
twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6. That, for the purpose of this act, an article shall be
deemed to be adulterated:

In the case of Paris green.—First, if it does not contain at least
fifty per centum of arsenious oxide; second, if it contains arsenic in
water-soluble forms equivalent to more than three and one-half per
centum of arsenious oxide; third, if any substance has been mixed and
packed with it so as to reduee or lower or injuriously affect its quality
or strength. |

In the case of lead arsenate paste.—First, if it contains more than
fifty per centum of water; second, if it contains total arsenic equivalent
to less than twelve and one-half per centum of arsenic oxide; third, if it
contains arsenic in water-soluble forms equivalent to more than seventy-
five one-hundredths per centum of arsenic oxide. In the case of dry
powdered lead arsenate.—First, if it contains total arsenic equivalent
to less than twenty-five per centum of arsenic oxide; second, if it con-
tains arsenic in water-soluble forms equivalent to more than one per
centum of arsenic oxide; third, if any substances have been mixed and
packed with either form of arsenate of lead so as to reduce, lower, or
injuriously affect its quality or strength. Provided, however, that
extra water may be added to lead arsenate (as described in this para-
graph), if the resulting mixture is labeled lead arsenate and water, the
percentage of extra water being plainly and correctly stated on the

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In the case of insecticides or fungicides other than Paris green and
lead arsenate.—First, if its strength, purity or efficacy fall below the
professed standard or quality under which it is sold; second, if any
substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article; third, if
any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part ab-
stracted; fourth, if it is intended for use on vegetation, and shall con-
tain any substance or substances which, although preventing, destroy-
ing, repelling or mitigating insects or fungi, shall be injurious to such
vegetation when used under normal conditions according to the direc-
tion of the manufacturer.