10144. Adulteration of powdered capsicum. U. S. * * * v. Allaire,?
Woodward & Co., a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $25 and?
costs.     (F. & D. No. 14524.    I. S. No. 13320-r.)
On May 27, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Illi??
nois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against Allaire,?
Woodward & Co., a corporation, Peoria, 111., alleging shipment by said company,?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 19, 1919, from the?
State of Illinois into the State of New York, of a quantity of powdered capsicum?
which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it contained not more than 10 per cent of genuine capsi??
cum, the fruit of Capsicum frutescens. The remaining 90 per cent consisted of?
the fruits of Capsicum annuum, a species less pungent than Capsicum frutescens.
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 Pharma??
copoeia and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as de??
termined by the tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of?
investigation, in that the said article was derived in large part from a product?
other than the dried ripe fruits of Capsicum frutescens,' whereas the said?
Pharmacopoeia provides that capsicum shall be wholly derived from the dried?
ripe fruits of Capsicum frutescens, and the standard of strength, quality, and!?
purity of the said article was not declared on the container thereof.
On November 19, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be??
half of the defendant company, ?nd the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.