5019. Adulteration of tincture of iotiin and. misbranding and alleged adul??
teration, of otlier drug's componaded under a nnysieian's pre??
scription. U. S. * * * v. Nellie G. O'Donnello (OTSoisinell's?
Pharmacy.)      Plea   of   gnilty   to   counts   1   and   3   of   information.
Fine, Sf>20.     Count 2 of information nol-prossed.     (F.  & D.  No.  6391.?
I. S. Nos. 5804-fa, 22341-h.)
On July 17, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court?
of the said District an information against Nellie G. O'Donnell, trading as?
O'Donnell's Pharmacy, Washington, D. C, alleging the sale by said defendant,?
at the District aforesaid, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on May 6, 1914,?
of a quantity of tincture of iodin which was adulterated, and on August 18, 1913,?
of an article of drugs purporting to have been prepared in accordance with a?
physician's prescription, which was misbranded and alleged to have been adul??
terated.
Analysis of a sample of the tincture of iodin by the Bureau of Chemistry of?
this department showed the following results:
Iodin (grams per 1,000 cc)?
93.80
Potassium ioclid (grams per 1,000 cc)?
70. 28
Analysis of the physician's prescription by said Bureau of Chemistry showed?
the following results:
Acetphenetidin  (grains)?
31. 0
Bismuth subnitrate: Absent.?
Bismuth subcarbonate: Present.?
Sodium bicarbonate: Present.
Adulteration of the tincture of ioclin was alleged in the information for the?
reason that it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States?
Pharmacopoeia, and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity?
as determined by the test laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the?
time of investigation of the said article, in that it contained iodin, 93.80 grams,?
and potassium iodid 70.28 grams per 1,000 cubic centimeters, whereas said?
Pharmacopoeia provides that it should contain not more than 70 grams of?
iodin and 50 grams of potassium iodid per 1,000 cubic centimeters, and the?
standard of the strength, quality, and purity of said article was not declared on?
the container thereof.
Adulteration of the article purporting to have been compounded in accordance?
with a physician's prescription was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it fell below the professed standard and purity under which it was sold,?
in that said prescription called for 36 grains of acetphenetidin and 1 drachm of?
bismuth subnitrate in 12 powders, whereas said powders contained approxi??
mately 31 grains of acetphenetidin and no bismuth subnitrate.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the said powders contained no?
bismuth subnitrate, but contained another article?to wit, bismuth subcar??
bonate?which had been substituted for bismuth subnitrate and was sold under?
the name of bismuth subnitrate.
On July 17, 1916, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to counts 1 and 3?
of the information, charging adulteration of the tincture of iodin and misbrand??
ing of the article purporting to have been compounded in accordance with a?
physician's prescription, and the court imposed a fine of $20. Count 2 of the?
information, charging adulteration of the article last referred to, was nol-?
prossed.
GAEL VKOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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