0451. Adulteration and Misbranding of saccharin. II. S. * * * v. 9 
Pounds of Saccharin. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (P. & D. No. 9370.     I. S. No. 15621-r.     S. No. B-1127.)
On October 3, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure 
and condemnation of 1 can containing 9 pounds of saccharin, remaining in the 
original unbroken package at Fredericksburg, Va., alleging that the article had 
been shipped during August, 1918, by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., 
and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Virginia, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it contained 48 per cent of sugar.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, 
and differed from the strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test 
laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the investigation, 
and for the further reason that its strength and purity fell below the professed 
standard and quality under which it was sold.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the package 
and the label thereon bore the following statements, and numerous other 
statements, which statements were false and fraudulent [misleading], " Soluble 
Saccharine 500 Soluble in cold water. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. 
The House of Quality. Quality guaranteed W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., Manufactur- 
ing Chemists, St. Louis, Mo. This may be used by dissolving 1 pound of 
saccharine in 1 gallon of water then each one ounce of this solution is equal 
in sweetening power to iibout 4 lbs. of sugar. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. Manu- 
facturing Chemists, St. Louis, Mo.," in that the labeling " Soluble Saccharine "
was false and misleading, and for the further reason that the article was an 
imitation of, and offered for sale under the name of, another article.
On January 8, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.