11964. Adulteration  of   chloroform.     V.   S.  v.   8   Cans   of   Chloroform.     De-
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 16539.    S. No. E-4013.)
On June 30, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 8 cans of chloroform, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Blairsville, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
New York, N. Y., on or about May 11, 1922, and transported from the State of 
New York into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Chloroform 
*    *    *    For Anesthesia."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it was turbid, upon evaporation it left a foreign odor, 
and it contained hydrochloric acid, 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 clown in said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the investiga- 
tion.
On April 24, 1923, 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. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.