0265. Adulteration of turpentine. U. S. * * * v. The Dill Co., a Cor- 
poration. Plea of s-iiilty. Pine, $50. (F. & D. No. 14050. I. S. Nos. 
17406-r,   17465-r.)
On April 11, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
The Dill Co., a corporation, Norristown, Pa., alleging shipment by said company, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 1 and 26, 1919, 
from the State of Pennsylvania into the States of West Virginia and Virginia, 
respectively, of quantities of turpentine which was adulterated. The article 
was labeled in part, " * * * Dill's Co Brand Spirits of Turpentine 
*    *    *    Distributed By The Dill Company, Norristown, Pa."
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that on treating with fuming sulphuric acid there remained 
unattacked 5.2 per cent and 4.5 per cent, respectively, of the original quantity 
of oil taken, instead of 1 per cent, as specified by the United States Pharma- 
copoeia. This residue was colorless, limpid, and had a refruitive index of 
1.4480 and 1.4516, respectively. On treating portions of the samples with 
hydrochloric acid dark-brown colors developed immediately. These results 
indicated the presence of approximately 5 per cent of mineral oil.
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 tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the investiga- 
tion, in that said Pharmacopoeia prescribed that spirits of turpentine should 
be the volatile oil distilled with water from the concrete oleoresin obtained 
from Pinus palustris Miller or from other species of Pinus, whereas the article 
was not volatile oil distilled with water from the concrete oleoresin obtained 
from Pinus palustris Miller or from other species of Pinus, but was a product 
composed in part of mineral oil; and the said Pharmacopoeia provided that
spirits of turpentine when shaken vigorously with an equal volume of hydro- 
chloric acid in a test tube and allowed, to stand for a few -minutes should not 
produce a brownish or greenish color, whereas said article when shaken vigor- 
ously with an equal volume of hydrochloric acid in a test tube and allowed 
to stand for a few minutes produced a brownish color; and the standard' of 
the strength, quality, and purity of the said article was not declared On the 
containers thereof.
On April 11, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
ID. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.