11830. Adulteration and misbranding of chloroform. IT. S. v. 50 Cans of 
Chloroform. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (P. & D. No. 16621.    S. No. C-3699.)
On July 12, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and 
?condemnation of 50 cans of chloroform, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Beaumont, Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
New York, N. Y., May 24, 1922, and transported from the State of New York 
into the State of Texas, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Chloro- 
form    *    *    *    For Anaesthesia."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it was turbid and thaf it contained chlorinated decom- 
position products.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the rea- 
son that it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States 
Pharmacopoeia and did not meet the required standard of strength, quality, 
?and purity as required by law.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded in 
that it was decomposed and did not have the standard of strength, quality, and 
purity as indicated by the labels.
On December 18, 1922, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
<;ourt that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.