Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Act, any drug or article is deemed to be adulterated—
(a) if it contains or is mixed or diluted with any substance in any quantity or in any proportion which diminishes in any manner its nutritive or other beneficial properties as compared with the same in a pure and normal state and in an undeteriorated and sound condition, or which in any manner operates or may operate to the prejudice or disadvantage of the purchaser or consumer;
(b) if it contains or is mixed or diluted with any substance of lower commercial value than the same in a pure and normal state and in an undeteriorated and sound condition;
(c) if any substance, constituent, or ingredient has been wholly or in part extracted, abstracted, or omitted from it, and as a result its nutritive or other beneficial properties are less than those of the same in its pure and normal state, or the purchaser or consumer is or may be in any manner prejudiced or disadvantaged;
(d) if, either wholly or in part, it does not comply with the prescribed standard for it;
(e) if it contains anything prohibited by this Act;
(f) if it contains any substance in excess of any quantity or proportion permitted by this Act;
(g) if it is mixed, coloured, powdered, coated, stained, or treated in any manner whereby damage, deterioration, inferiority, or true character or quality is or may be concealed;
(h) if it consists wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or of any portion of an animal or vegetable unfit for use as or in any drug or article, whether manufactured or not, or it has not been sufficiently cleaned or purified;
(i) if it is the product of a diseased animal, or of one which has died otherwise than by slaughter;
(j) if it is damaged, deteriorated, or perished or contains any foreign matter;
(k) if another substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for such drug or article.
(2) However, in any proceeding under this Act for selling a drug or an article to which subsection (1)(a) or (b) applies, such drug or article shall not be deemed to be adulterated if it is sold as a mixture in accordance with this Act.