NOTICE OE JUDGMENT NO. 1124.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADIJLTEKATION AND  MISBRANDING OF  TURPENTINE.
On May 19, 1911, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Connecticut, acting upon the report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a 
libel, praying condemnation and forfeiture of five barrels of turpen- 
tine in the possession of the Apothecaries Hall Company, Waterbury, 
Conn.   The product was labeled : " Pure Spirits of Turpentine."
Analyses of samples from said consignment, made by the Bureau 
of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
showed the following amounts of mineral oil: 9.6 per cent, 9.4 per 
cent, 9.6 per cent, 9.6 per cent. The libel alleged that the turpentine, 
after shipment by the Pennsylvania Alcohol & Chemical Co., of Phil- 
adelphia, from Pennsylvania into Connecticut, remained in the orig- 
inal unbroken packages, and was adulterated and misbranded in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, and was, therefore, 
liable to seizure for confiscation. Adulteration was alleged because 
the strength and purity of the product was below the professed stand- 
ard or quality under which it was sold. Misbranding was alleged 
because the label represented the product as a pure spirits turpentine, 
which was false and misleading, because said product was not a pure 
spirits turpentine as represented.
On June 19, 1911, no person having appeared as claimant, and a 
general default having been entered against all 'claimants, the court 
entered a decree condemning and forfeiting said property to the 
United States for the reasons set forth in the information, and 
ordered the marshal to sell the said five barrels of turpentine for 
mechanical uses only at a price sufficient to pay the costs of the pro- 
ceedings and in default of such sale, to destroy the said turpentine.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 18, 1911.
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