NOTICE   OF JUDGMENT  NO.  2147.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF OIL OF CAJUPUT.
0:i July 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an 
information against the Meyer Bros. Drug Co., a corporation, St. 
Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about February 10, 1911, from the State 
of Missouri into the Stats of Texas, of a quantity of oil of cajuput 
which was adulterated. The product was labeled: "One pound Oil 
Cajuput (Oleum Cajuputi) U. S. P. Guaranteed xxx No. 55, Meyer 
Bros. Drug Co., Saint Louis."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity at 25° 
C, 0.9127; refruitive index at 20° C, 1.4698; optical rotation, 100 
mm 20° C, —1.38°; soluble in 1 volume 80 per cent alcohol; solution 
acid to litmus; copper, present. Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that it was sold under and 
by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacoposia, to wit, 
"Oil Cajuput (Oleum Cajuputi)", and the letters U. S. P., appearing 
upon the label, stood for United States Pharmacopoeia, and were so 
known and understood in the trade and by purchasers of the product, 
which, when so sold and transported, differed from the standard of 
strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test laid down in 
the United States Pharmacopoeia official at the time of the shipment 
and the investigation, in that the product was high in specific gravity 
and contained copper, and the standard of strength, quality, and 
purity of the product was not stated on the bottle or other container 
thereof.
On September 26, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25, with
costs.
WILLIS L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 26, 1912.
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