5449. Adulteration. and misbranding of tincture of iodin. IT, S. * * * 
v. Domingo Peraza. Plea of guilty. Fine, $13.50 and costs. 
<F. & D. No. 8079.    I. S. No. 5015-m.)
On March 27, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Porto Rico, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against Domingo Peraza, 
San Juan, P. R., alleging the sale by said defendant, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about October 12, 1916, of a quantity of an article labeled 
in part: " Tintura de Iodo," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results;
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
87. 7
Iodin (grams per 100 cc) 
0.13
Residue   on   evaporation   as   potassium   iodid   (grams   per
100   cc) 
2.82
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States Pharma- 
copeeia, official at the time of the investigation of said article, and differed from 
the standard of strength, quality, and purity, as determined by the test as laid 
clown in the said Pharmacopoeia, which requires 100 milliliters of the said 
article to contain not less than 6.5 grams of iodin and not less than 4.5 grams 
of potassium iodid, whereas 100 milliliters of said article contained less 
amounts of both iodin and potassium iodid, to wit, 6.13 grams of iodin and 2.82 
grams of potassium iodide.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the package con- 
taining it failed to bear a statement on its label of the quantity or proportion 
of alcohol contained therein.
On April 2, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $12.50 and costs.
ŚCARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.