1206. Adulteration of senna and senna sittings.    U. S. v. 14 Bales and 26 Bales
of Senna and 25 Bales of Senna Sittings. Default decree of condemna-
tion and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 11470. Sample Nos. 46665-F to 46667-F,
incl., 46671-F to 46673-F, incl.)
Senna is a vegetable drug the name of which is recognized in the United States
Pharmacopoeia, and senna siftings is a term applied to small pieces of senna
leaves which have been broken in the process of gathering, packing, etc.
On December 21, 1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
Michigan filed a libel against 40 bales of senna and 25 bales of senna siftings at
Detroit, Mich., alleging that the articles had been shipped on or about June 4,
1943, by the Sterling Products Division (Sterling Drug, Inc.), Wheeling, W. Va.;
and charging that they were adulterated.
The articles were alleged to be adulterated (1) in that they consisted in whole
or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of webbing, adult insects,
insect larvae, insect fragments and capsules, and insect excreta; (2) in that they
had been held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become con-
taminated with filth; and (3) in that they purported to be and were represented as
senna, a drug the name of which is recognized in the United States Pharmaco-
poeia, an official compendium, but their quality and purity fell below the stand-
ard set forth in that compendium.
On March 11, 1944, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation
was entered and the products were ordered destroyed.
DRUGS AND DEVICES ACTIONABLE BECAUSE OF DEVIATION FROM
OFFICIAL OR OWN STANDARDS*