10767.  Adulteration of chloroform.    TJ. S. v. 200 Tins of Chloroform.    Default?
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
16436.    I. S. No. 14052-t.    S. No. W-1109.)
On or about June 24, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of?
Oregon, 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 con??
demnation of 200 tins, each containing | pound of chloroform, remaining in the?
original unbroken packages at Albany, Oreg., alleging that the article had been?
shipped by Samson .Rosenblatt Co., Chicago, 111., April 1, 1922, and transported?
from the State of Illinois into the State of Oregon, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled: " Chloroform?
for Anaesthesia."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that it was turbid, that upon evaporation it left a foreign odor,?
and that it contained hydrochloric acid, free chlorin, impurities decomposable?
by sulphuric acid, and chlorinated decomposition products.
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 standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by?
the test laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of investigation.
On August 8, 1922, 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. PUGSI^EY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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