If any person shall manufacture, sell or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any adulterated food, or drug, as defined by law; or if any person shall manufacture, sell, or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any candy, confection, or sweetmeat, in making which any preparation of lime or other deleterious substance is used, he shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health
§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy
§ 97-27-3. Animals and fowl; diseased animals and fowl to be confined and segregated; burial
§ 97-27-5. Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease
§ 97-27-10. Definition of harmful substances
§ 97-27-13. Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad
§ 97-27-15. Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink
§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions
§ 97-27-19. Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment
§ 97-27-21. Poisons; sale and giving away regulated
§ 97-27-23. Poisons; register to be kept; label
§ 97-27-25. Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo
§ 97-27-27. Poisons; arsenic or other deadly poison not to be used in embalming fluid
§ 97-27-29. Poisons; penalty for violation of certain sections