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any particular, or which that is falsely branded in any particular.

 
For the purpose of this Title an article shall be deemed to be
misbranded:

 
1. Drug. In case of a drug:

 
A. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the
name of another article;

 
B. If the contents of the package as originally put up
shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other
contents shall have been placed in such package, or except
in the case of a physician's prescription compounded by a
physician or a registered pharmacist, if the package fails
to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or
proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin,
alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral
hydrate or acetanilide, or any derivative or any preparation
of any such substances contained therein.

 
Sec. 20. 7 MRSA §485, as amended by PL 1975, c. 382, §1, is
repealed.

 
Sec. 21. 7 MRSA §486, as amended by PL 1979, c. 672, Pt. A, §18, is
repealed.

 
Sec. 22. 7 MRSA §487 is repealed.

 
Sec. 23. 7 MRSA §488-A, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. B,
§3 and affected by Pt. X, §2, is amended to read:

 
1. Violation. A person may not adulterate or misbrand,
within the meaning of this Title chapter or chapter 103, any
commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer, drug, food or
vinegar or manufacture, sell, distribute, transport, offer or
expose for sale, distribution or transportation any article of
commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer, drug, food or
vinegar in violation of this Title chapter or chapter 103.

 
Sec. 24. 7 MRSA §489, first ¶, as amended by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. B, §4
and affected by Pt. X, §2, is further amended to read:

 
A person may not be prosecuted under chapter 401, and sections
481 482 to 488-A, 490 and 640 to 643, when that person can
establish proof of purchase, and a guaranty signed by the person
residing in the United States from whom the purchase was made, to
the effect that the article in question is not


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