Adulteration of drugs: criminal liability for altering medicines to reduce efficacy or make them noxious, punishable by imprisonment or fine. The offence covers altering a drug or medical preparation to lessen efficacy, change its operation, or make it noxious, when done with intent or knowledge that it will be sold or used for medicinal purposes as if unaltered; penalty is imprisonment of either description up to one year, or a fine, or both.
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Adulteration of drugs: criminal liability for altering medicines to reduce efficacy or make them noxious, punishable by imprisonment or fine.
The offence covers altering a drug or medical preparation to lessen efficacy, change its operation, or make it noxious, when done with intent or knowledge that it will be sold or used for medicinal purposes as if unaltered; penalty is imprisonment of either description up to one year, or a fine, or both.
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