5835. Adulteration and misbranding of soap liniment. IT. S. * * * v. 
1 Carboy * * * of * * ¦* Soap Liniment. Consent decree of 
condemnation and forfeiture.     Product  ordered released  on bond.
(P. & D  No. 8351.    I. S   No. 6914-p.    S. No. E-866.)
On July 26, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary oL Agriculture, filed in the Supreme Court 
of the District aforesaid, holding a district court, a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1 carboy, containing 12 gallons of an article purporting to be 
soap liniment, consigned by the Tincture & Extract Co., Philadelphia, Pa., re- 
maining unsold in the' original unbroken package at Washington, D. C, alleging 
that the article had been shipped between the dates of July 1, 1917, and July 
20, 1917, and transported from the State of Pennsylvania into the District of 
Columbia, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, "Soap Liniment (U. S. P.) 
Alcohol 70%.   Tincture & Extract Co., Philadelphia, Penna."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it was 
sold under and by a certain name, to wit, the name of soap liniment, which said 
name is recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, when, in truth and in 
fact, the said drug differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity 
as determined by the tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia official at the time 
of the shipment of said article and the filing of the libel.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the label on the 
carboy was false and misleading in that the statement, "Soap Liniment (U. S. 
P.)," thereon, imported and signified that the product contained therein was 
soap liniment of the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by 
the tests laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the ship- 
ment of said article and the filing of the libel, when, in truth and in fact, it 
was not soap liniment according to' the standard of the said Pharmacopoeia 
official, as aforesaid, and for the further reason that the article, labeled and 
branded as aforesaid, purported to contain 70 per cent of alcohol by volume, 
when, in truth and in fact, it contained 62.7 per cent of alcohol by volume.
On September 20, 1917, the said Tincture & Extract Co., claimant, having 
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product should be released to said 
claimants upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $100, in conformity with section 10 of the- act.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.