NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2140.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  AND  MISBRANDING  OF   WITCH HAZEL.
On April 27, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for 
the seizure and condemnation of one barrel of distilled witch-hazel 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken package and in possession 
of J. Lang & Co., Baltimore, Md., alleging that the product had been 
shipped from the State of Pennsylvania into the State of Maryland 
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "To Lang & Co., Balti- 
more, Md., Tunkhannock Distilling Co., Manufacturers of Double 
Distilled Witch Hazel., Tunkhannock, Pa."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that, while it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United 
States Pharmacopoeia, to wit, distilled witch-hazel, it differed from 
the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the 
test laid down in said Pharmacopoeia official at the time of investi- 
gation, in that said product did not contain any ethyl alcohol. Mis- 
branding was alleged for the reason that the product was an imita- 
tion of and offered for sale under the name of another article, to 
wit, witch-hazel, in that it did not contain any ethyl alcohol, and, 
further because the package containing the product although con- 
taining methyl alcohol failed to bear a statement of the quantity or 
proportion of alcohol contained therein.
On June 15, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it was 
further ordered that the product should be destroyed by the United
States marshal.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 23,1912.
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