6974.?Adulteration of Wahoo Bark of Root.    U. S.   *    *    *-   v. J. Ii. Hopkins
&. Co., a corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $5. (F. & D. No. 9485.?
I. S. No. 4659-p.)
On January 16, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
J. L. Hopkins & Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said?
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on April 19, 1918, from the?
State of New York into the State of New Jersey, of a quantity of an article,?
labeled in part " Wahoo Bark of Root," which was adulterated.
Examination and analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chem??
istry of this department showed it to contain 8.3 per cent of wood and 11.62?
per cent of ash.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it was sold under and by a name recognized in the National Formulary, and?
differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by?
the test laid down in said National Formulary, official at the time of inves??
tigation of the article, in that said article contained 8.3 per cent of wood,?
whereas said National Formulary provides that it should contain not more?
than 3 per cent of wood, and the strength, quality, and purity of the article were?
not declared on the container thereof.
On February 26, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to?
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $5,
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.