1174. Adulteration of tartaric acid crystals.    U. S. -v. 22 Bottles of Tartaric Acid
Crystals.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C. No.
11137.    Sample No. 52926-F.)
On November 17,1943, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland
filed a libel against 22 bottles, each containing 1 pound, of tartaric acid crystals
at Perry Point, Md., alleging that the article, which had been Consigned by the
Brocker Chemical Co., had been shipped from Morganville, N. J., on or about
September 1,1943; and charging that it was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it purported to be and was
represented as a drug the name of which is recognized in the United States
Pharmacopoeia, an official compendium, but its quality and purity fell below the -
standard set forth in the compendium since the article contained foreign material
such as wood splinters, insoluble, blue, glass-like material, and a few fragments
of insects and hair, substances foreign to tartaric acid.
On December 20, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna-
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.