11795. Adulteration  of  chloroform.    TJ.   S.  v.  369   J-Pound  Tins,   et   al.,   of
Chloroform.     Decree   ordering   release   of   product   under   bond. 
(F. & D. No. 16786.    S. Nos. C-3794, C-3795, C-3796.)
On or about September 14, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying 
the seizure and condemnation of 1,949 tins of chloroform at Gainesville, Tex., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from New York, N. Y., in various 
consignments, namely, on February 25, March 11, and April 5, 1922, respec- 
tively, and transported from the State of New York into the State of Texas, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Chloroform    *    *    *    For Anesthesia."
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the chloroform in one shipment contained impurities 
decomposable by sulphuric acid and chlorinated decomposition products and 
that the chloroform in the remaining shipments was turbid, upon evaporation 
it left a foreign odor, and it contained chlorides, impurities decomposable by 
sulphuric acid, odorous decomposition products, and chlorinated decomposition 
products.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
was sold under 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 May 31, 1923, H. W. Stark, Gainesville, Tex., having appeared as claimant 
for the property, judgment of the court was entered ordering that the product 
be delivered to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings 
and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 
10 of the act.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.