NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2741.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U.  S.  v.   Magnus,  Mabee  &  Reynard.   Plea  of  guilty.   Fine,  $100.
ADULTERATION   OF   OIL   OF   THYME.
On January 22, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district an information against Magnus, Mabee & Reynard, a 
corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on May 11, 1910, from the 
State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of 
oil of white thyme which was adulterated. The product was labeled: 
"M. & L. Manufacturers Purity & Strength Oil Thyme White. 
Magnus & Lauer Essential Oils Vanilla Chemicals. 92. Packed for 
Shipley Messingham Co. Pittsburg, Pa. 4 oz. Net weight. U. S. 
Serial No. 1245. Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act June 30, 
1906."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity 
at 25° C, 0.8945; optical rotation, -f-11.7°; index of refruition, 
1.4791; soluble in one-half volume of 95 per cent alcohol; not com- 
pletely soluble in four volumes of 80 per cent alcohol; official phenol, 
absent; thymol, 11.0 per cent. Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that it was sold under a 
name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, and 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 in- 
vestigation, in that the specific gravity was less than 0.9; its optical
15996°—No. 2741—14
rotation was greater than 3?; it was not soluble in one-half volume 
of 80 per cent alcohol; and that the thymol contained therein was 
not as great as 20 per cent. (It will be noted that the analysis shows 
that the product was soluble in one-half volume 95 per cent alcohol, 
but was not completely soluble in four volumes of 80 per cent alcohol.) 
On May 22, 1913, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 
to the information, and on May 23, 1913, the court imposed a fine of
$100.
C. F. MARVIN, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 13, 1913.
2741
o