1519. Adulteration  of dandelion roots.     IT.  S. v.  50 Bags  of  Dandelion Roots.
Default  decree of condemnation and  destruction.     (F.  D.  C.  No.  15139.
Sample No. 5945-H.)
On February 6,1945, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey
filed a libel against 50 bags containing approximately 2,955 pounds of dandelion
roots at Jersey City, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about
January 2,1945, from New York, N. Y., by the Kachurin Drug Co.
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 National Formu-
lary, an official compendium, but its quality and purity fell below the official
standard, which requires that vegetable drugs are to be as free as practicable
from molds, insects, or other animal life and animal excreta and shall show no
evidence of deterioration, since it was contaminated with mold and rot, had
been eaten by insects, and was also contaminated with insect excreta.
On April 2, 1945, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.