6073.  Adulteration of " Oint Tanic Acid."     V. S.    *    *    *    v. Eugene R. Nich??
ols   (Nichols  Pharmacy).     Collateral   of  $20  forfeited.     (F.  & D.  No.
9484.    I. S. No. 3821-p.)
On April 23, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court?
of said District an information against Eugene R. Nichols, trading as Nichols?
Pharmacy, Washington, D. C, alleging that said defendant did offer for sale and?
sell at the said District on May 16, 1918, in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, a quantity of an article, labeled in part " Oint Tanic Acid," which was?
adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed it to contain 21.83 per cent of tannic acid, that glycerin was?
absent, and that the vehicle consisted essentially of petrolatum.
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 Pharmacopoeia,?
and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined?
by the tests laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of in??
vestigation of the article, in that it contained no glycerin or ointment, whereas?
said Pharmacopoeia provides that in 100 mils of the article there shall be 20?
grams of glycerin and 60 grams of ointment, and in that the article contained?
petrolatum, which is not mentioned as an ingredient of ointment of tannic acid?
in said Pharmacopoeia; and the standard of the strength, quality, and purity?
of the article was not declared on the container thereof.
On April 23, 1919, the defendant having failed to appear, the ,$20 collateral?
that had theretofore been deposited by him was forfeited by order of the court.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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