1162. Adulteration of senna.    IT. S. v.  639 Bags of Senna.    Consent decree of
condemnation.    Product   ordered   released   under   bond.     (F.   D.   C.   No.
10913.    Sample No. 34243-F.)
On October 11, 1943, the United States attorney for the Northern District of
West Virginia filed a libel against 639 bags, each containing approximately 300
pounds, of senna at Wheeling, W. Va., alleging that the article had been shipped
from New York, N. Y., from on or about October 6 to 20, 1942, and that it was
in the possession of Sterling Drug, Inc.; and charging that it was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part
of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of webbing, adult insects, insect
larvae, insect fragments and capsules, and large quantities of insect excreta; and
in that it had been held under insanitary conditions whereby it had been con-
taminated with filth.
It was alleged to be further adulterated in that it purported to be and was
represented as a drug, senna, the name of which is recognized in an official
compendium, the United States Pharmacopeia, but its quality and purity fell
below the standard set forth in that compendium since it was not substantially
free from insects, extraneous animal matter and animal excreta, but contained
filth of the nature described above.
On January 7,1944, the Sterling Drug, Inc., Wheeling, W. Va., claimant, having
admitted that the product was adulterated as charged in the libel, judgment
of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released under bond
to be brought into compliance with the law under the supervision of an employee
designated by the Federal Security Administrator.
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