5519. Adniteration and Irais^^>l?aI^.di:n.g? of oil of wintergreen. IT. S. * * * 
v. "Valentiiie B. Bowers. Plea of nolo contendere. Fine, $200 anA 
costs.     (F. & D. No. 5113.    I. S. No. 2659-h.)
On June 8, 1916, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Valentine B. Bowers, Spruce Pine, N. C, alleging shipment by said defendant, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about February 5, 1914, from the 
State of North Carolina into the State of Michigan, of a quantity of oil of 
wintergreen which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
Eotatioa in 100-mm tube at 20?C (degrees circular)     0.0
Odor is not characteristic of oil of wintergreen and article con- 
tains little if any natural oil of wintergreen.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, methyl salicylate, derived from a source other than 
wintergreen, had been substituted in whole or in part for oil of wintergreen, 
which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitatioa 
oil of wintergreen prepared in whole or in part from methyl salicylate, derived 
from a source other than wintergreen, and was offered for sale under the dis- 
tinctive name of another article, to writ, " Oil of Wintergreen."
On April 18, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the in- 
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $200 and costs.
CAEL VEOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.