3350. Adulteration and misbranding of .oil of pennyroyal. V. S. v. Arthur?
A. Stillwell & Co. Plea of gnilty. Fine, $15. (F. & D. No. 5141. I. S.?
No.   13354-d.)
At the March, 1914, term of the District Court of the United States within?
and for the Southern District of New York the United States attorney for the?
said district, acting upon a report by the Secretary of'Agriculture, filed in said?
court an information against Arthur A. Stillwell & Co., a corporation, New?
York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, on April 3, 1912, from the State of New York into the State of?
Massachusetts, of a quantity of oil of pennyroyal which was adulterated and?
misbranded.    The product was labeled: " Oil of Pennyroyal."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the following results:
Specific gravity, 25?/25?  C?
0.9064
Optical rotation (degrees, 100 mm. tube)?
+16.8
Insoluble in 2 or 20 volumes of 70 per cent alcohol.
Pulegone (per cent)?
     56.5
Analysis shows the presence of petroleum in the oil.
?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 Pharma??
copoeia, to wit, oil of pennyroyal, and differed from the standard of strength,?
quality, and purity as determined by the test laid down in said Pharmacopoeia,?
official at the time of said shipment and investigation, in these particulars: The?
specific gravity of said article was lower than the specific gravity specified for?
oil of pennyroyal in said Pharmacopoeia; said article was insoluble in 2 or?
more parts of 70 per cent alcohol, whereas said Pharmacopoeia provides that?
said drug should be soluble in 2 or more volumes of 70 per cent alcohol. Mis??
branding was alleged for the reason that the aforesaid label regarding said drug?
and the ingredients and substances contained therein was fajlse and misleading,?
in that said label would indicate that the said drug was jpure oil of penny??
royal, whereas, in truth and in fact, said drug was not pure oil of penny??
royal, but contained in addition to oil of pennyroyal other' inferior substance?
[substances], to wit, petroleum and turpentine.?
On April 6, 1914, the defendant company entered a plea of j guilty to the infor??
mation and the court imposed a fine of $15.
D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 24,1914.
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