7196. Adulteration of   granulated   mandrake   root.     TJ.   S.    *    *    *    v.   J.   Li.
Hopltins ?fc Co., a corporation.    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $10.     (P. & D.
No. 9860.    I. S. No. 3832-p.)
On July 21, 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 com- 
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on May 2, 1918, from the State 
of New York into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of an article, labeled in 
part " Granulated Mandrake Root," which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed it to contain 2.96 per cent of resin and 7.02 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 United States Pharmacopoeia, 
and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined 
by the tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of investiga- 
tion of the article, in that said Pharmacopoeia prescribes that said article should 
not yield more than 3 per cent of ash, whereas said article yielded 7.02 per 
cent of ash.
On July 30, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the in- 
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.