7848.  Adulteration   and   misjbi'ancHusr   of   Hacclaarin.     U.   S.     *     *     *     v.   20
Ponnils of Alleged Sacchnviit. Be for: It decree o? condemnation. 
anil forfeiture. Frodaei ordered ?>ol(1 or destroyed.. (F.' & D, No. 
9403.     I.  S. No.  5937-r.     S.  No.  C-095.)
On October 19, 1918, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricultarc, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 20 pounds of alleged saccharin, remaining unsold in the origi- 
nal unbroken packages at Birmingham, Ala., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about August 1. 1918, by H. E. Ward, Webster Groves, Mo., and 
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Alabama, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation cf the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel in that it was sold under 
and by a name recognized in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, and that it differed from 
the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test laid 
down in the Pharmacopoeia, ofiicial at the time of the investigation, and in that 
its strength and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under 
which it was sold.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in flint the statement on the label on 
the package containing the article, "A Soda Salt of Pure Saccharin," was false 
and misleading in that it indicated that the article wag a salt of pure saccharin, 
whereas it was not, but cunt lined 29.5 per cent of a sugar product, and in that 
it was an imitation of, and offered for sale under the name of, another article, 
to wit, saccharin.
On September 24, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the
court that the product be sold or destroyed by the United States marshal, in 
conformity with section 10 of the act. Costs of the proceedings were taxed 
against H. E. Ward, consignor of the product.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.