7649. Adulteration and misbranding of oil of sweet birch. XI, S. * * * tr, 
Edward E. Dickinson. (E. E. Dickinson & Co.). Plea of guilty. 
Fine, $300.     (P. & D, No. 10864.    I. S. Nos. 13609-r, 13716-r, 8628-p.)
On December 2, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Connects 
cut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Edward E. 
Dickinson, trading as E. E. Dickinson & Co., Essex, Conn., alleging- shipment 
on or about July 29, 1918, August 3,1918, and July 8, 1918, by said defendant, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of Connecticut into the 
States of Michigan and New York, of consignments of an article, labeled in part 
"Oil Betula Lenta, U. S. P.," "Dickinson's Oil Betula Lenta (Sweet Birch) 
E. E- Dickinson & Co. DistiUers * * * ,"" Oil of Betula. (Betula Lenta.) (Oil 
of Sweet Birch.) (Sometimes Called Oil of Wintergreen.)," and "Dickinson's 
Oil Betula Lenta Sweet Birch E. E. Dickinson & Co. Distillers * * *," 
which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the product made in the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this department showed it to contain synthetic methyl salicylate.
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that the shipments 
of July 8, 1918, and of July 29,1918, were sold under and hj a name recognized 
in the United States Pharmacopceia, and the article differed from the standard 
prescribed in the said Pharmacopoeia, and its own standard was not then and 
there stated upon the container. Adulteration was alleged for the further rea- 
son that the strength and purity of the said article fell'below the professed 
Standard and quality under which it was sold, and that a substance, to wit, 
synthetic methyl salicylate, had been mixed and packed with the article so as
to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
subsStuted in part for oil betula lenta, that is to say, oil of sweet birch, which 
the article purported to be.
It was alleged in the information that the article shipped on August 3, 1918, 
was adulterated in that it was sold under and by a name recognized in the 
United States Pharmacopoeia, and that it differed from the standard prescribed 
in said Pharmacopoeia, and its own standard was not stated upon the container, 
and the strength and purity of the article fell below the professed standard and 
quality under which it was sold.
Further adulteration was alleged as to the shipment of August 3, 1918, in 
that a substance, to wit, synthetic methyl salicylate, had been mixed and packed 
with the article so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, and had been substituted in part for oil of sweet birch, which the 
article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article in all of the shipments was alleged for the reason 
that the statements, " Oil Betula Lenta," " Oil of Sweet Birch Wintergreen 
Betula Dickinson's Oil of Sweet Birch, U. S. P.," and " Dickinson's Oil Betula 
Lenta (sweet birch) Oil of Betula. (Betula Lenta.) (Oil of Sweet Birch.) 
(Sometimes Called Oil of Wintergreen.)," appearing on the respective labels, 
were false and misleading in that they represented to purchasers of the said 
article that the same consisted of oil of sweet birch, whereas, in fact and in 
truth, the article was not oil of sweet birch, but was a mixture of oil of sweet 
birch with synthetic methyl salicylate. Further misbranding was alleged in that 
the article was an imitation of another article, to wit, oil betula lenta, that is 
to say, oil of sweet birch, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of 
another article, to wit, oil of sweet birch, whereas, in truth and in fact, the said 
article was not oil of sweet birch, but was a mixture of oil of sweet birch with 
synthetic methyl salicylate.
On December 11, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $300.
E. D. BAXL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.