NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2747.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. Magnus, Mabee & Reynard.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, f2*.
ADULTERATION OF OIL OF CASSIA.
On August 6, 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 corpo- 
ration, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on May 10, 1911, from the 
State of New York into the State of Georgia, of a quantity of oil of 
cassia which was adulterated. -The product was labeled: "4 oz. net 
weight. Oil cassia. Magnus & Lauer, N. Y., U. S. A. Ser. No. 
1245."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results:
Specific gravity at 25° C 
1. 0562
Befruitive index at 20° C 
1. 5940
Rotation at 20° C 
+7. 49°
Soluble in two volumes of 70 per cent alcohol.
Lead 
Small amount present
Resins 
Present.
Copper  acetate  test 
Positive.
Lead  acetate  test 
Positive.
Cinnamic aldehydes by absorption_per cents 68. 0
Residue on distillation 
do  18. 0
Condition  of  residue 
Hard.
High rotation.    Resins present.   Lead present,
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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 Pharmacopoeia, or National Formulary, to wit, oil of cassia, 
and differed from the standards of strength, quality, and purity as 
determined by the tests laid down in the said United States Phar- 
macopoeia official at the time of investigation, and the standard of 
strength, quality, and purity of the product was not stated on the 
container thereof, and said article differed from the standards of 
strength, quality, and purity as determined by the tests laid down in 
the United States Pharmacopoeia in that the said article contained 
approximately 10 per cent of added resin, and that there was pres- 
ent in the said article lead and copper, and in that its specific gravity 
differed from the test laid down in the said United States Pharma- 
copoeia for specific gravity in oil of cassia. (While it was alleged in 
the information that copper was present in the product, it will be 
noted that the analysis did not indicate the presence of any copper.)
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 $25.
C. F. MARVIN, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C.5 October 15, 1913.
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