0470. Adulteration, and .Misbranding of saccharin. XJ. S. * * * v. 5 
Pounds of Saccharin. Default decree ordering destruction of 
product.     (F. & D. No. 9366.     I. S. No. 15620-r.     S. No. B-1125.)
On October 1, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of one can containing 5 pounds of saccharin, remaining in the 
original unbroken package at Portsmouth, Va., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., on or about 
August 16, 1918, 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 de- 
partment showed that it consisted of a mixture containing soluble saccharin 
and 60 per cent of sugar.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance 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 deter- 
mined by the test laid clown in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the 
investigation, in 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 labels of the 
article bore the following statements, " Soluble Saccharine 500 Soluble in cold 
water. * * * Quality guaranteed W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. Manufacturing- 
Chemists, St. Louis, Mo. This may be used by dissolving 1 pound of sac- 
charine in 1 gallon of water then each one ounce of this solution is equal in 
sweetening power to about 4 lbs. of sugar. * * * " which statements and the 
labeling, " Soluble Saccharine," were false and misleading, and for the fur- 
ther reason that the said article was an imitation of, and was offered for sale 
under the name of, another article.
On July 12, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered ordering the destruction of the product by the United States 
marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.