An Act for preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink.
WHEREAS the Practice of adulterating Articles of Food and Drink for Sale, in fraud of Her Majesty's Subjects, and to the great Hurt of their Health, requires to be repressed by more effectual Laws than those which are now in force for that Purpose: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: