NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1105.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF IMPROVED SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE.
On April 1, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Missouri, acting upon the report of the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel praying condemnation and forfeiture of 131 barrels 
of sodic aluminic sulphate found on the premises of the Hygienic 
Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Analysis of samples from said product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of the United States Department of Agriculture showed the product 
to contain ten parts of metallic arsenic per million. The libel alleged 
that the said product, after transportation from Illinois into Mis- 
souri, remained in the original unbroken packages and was adul- 
terated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, 
because it contained an added poisonous ingredient, to wit, arsenic, 
which rendered said article injurious to health.
On June 8, 1911, the cause coming oh to be heard, the Superior 
Chemical Co., by Sebastian Dagger, its president, filed its claim to 
said property, asking that an order be made by the court for the 
release of the property to the claimant upon the payment of the 
costs of the proceedings and the execution and delivery of a bond, 
as provided by the aforesaid act. On said date the court found the 
said product adulterated as alleged in the libel and that the United 
States was entitled to a decree of condemnation as prayed for, and 
accordingly entered a .decree on that day condemning and forfeiting 
the goods to the United States and ordering the marshal to label said 
product " Sodic Aluminic Sulphate and Arsenic. Not to be used for 
food," and to sell same at public auction upon such terms and con-
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ditions as will not violate the aforesaid act, with the proviso, how- 
ever, that the said product be delivered to the above-mentioned 
claimant upon its paying the costs of the proceedings and executing 
a
.good and sufficient bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that the 
product be not sold or otherwise disposed of in violation of law.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 30, 1911.
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