11166.?Adulteration   of   chloroform.    U.   S.   v.   9   One-Pound   Cans   and   46
Quarter-Pound Cans of Chloroform. Default decree of condem??
nation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 16608. I. S. Nos.?
14136-t, 14137-t.    S. No. W-1141.)
On July 10, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado,?
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 9 one-pound cans and 46 quarter-pound cans of chloroform, remaining unsold?
in the original unbroken packages at Denver, Colo., consigned by the Powers-?
Weightman-Rosengarten Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been?
shipped from St. Louis, Mo., in various shipments, namely, on or about April?
22, May 20, and June 13, 1922, respectively, and transported from the State of?
Missouri into the State of Colorado, and charging adulteration in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Chloroformurn?
Chloroform U. S. P. For Anaesthesia."
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that the chloroform in the one-pound packages contained?
chlorinated decomposition products, and that the chloroform in the quarter-?
pound packages was turbid and contained impurities, decomposable by sul??
phuric 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 by said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of investigation.
On November 20, 1922, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal, such destruc??
tion to be carried out by the delivery of the said product to this department to?
be used for experimental purposes.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture.