Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully sell, or hold or offer for sale, any tainted, putrid, unsound, unwholesome, unmerchantable flour, or other provisions, as sound and good; or shall practice any fraud or deception, to put off and sell any damaged, unsound, or unmerchantable provisions, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, 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