14860. Adulteration and misbranding of morphine sulphate tablets and 
atropine sulphate tablets. IT. S. v. Scbleflelin & Co. Flea of 
guilty. Fine, $400. (P. & D. No. 19776. I. S. Nos. 4418-x, 7005-x, 
7251-x, 7263-x.)
On October 8, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York,-acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Schieffelin & Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act, in various consignments, on 
or about May 5, 1925, from the State of New York into the State of Missouri, of 
a quantity of morphine sulphate tablets, and on or about May 29 and September 
12 and 21, 1925, respectively, from the State of New York into the State of 
New Jersey, of quantities of morphine sulphate tablets and atropine sulphate 
tablets, which products were adulterated and misbranded. The articles were 
labeled, variously: " Tablet Triturates * * * Morphine Sulphate 1-2 Grain 
Schieffelin & Co. New York"; "Tablets * * * Morphine Sulphatis 1-8 
Gr. (8 mgm) Schieffelin & Co. New York"; "Tablets Atropine Sulphatis 
* * * 1-60 Gr. Prepared by Schieffelin & Co. New York "; " Tablet Tritu- 
rates    *    *    *    Atropine Sulphate 1/100 Grain Schieffelin & Co. New York."
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that their strength and purity fell below the professed standard and 
quality under which they were sold, in that the labels represented that the 
said tablets contained % grain of morphine sulphate, % grain of morphine 
sulphate, ^ grain of atropine sulphate, or you grain of atropine sulphate, as 
the case might be, whereas each of said tablets contained less of the product 
than represented on the label thereof, the alleged % grain morphine sulphate 
tablets containing not more than 0.428 grain of morphine sulphate each, the 
alleged % grain morphine sulphatis tablets containing not more than 0.101 
grain of morphine sulphate each, the alleged ^ grain atropine sulphatis tablets 
containing not more than 0.0117 grain of atropine sulphate each, and the 
alleged rear grain atropine sulphate tablets containing not more than 0.00685 
grain of atropine sulphate each.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, " Tablet 
Triturates * * * Morphine Sulphate 1-2 Grain," " Tablets * * * Mor- 
phine Sulphatis y8 Gr.," "Tablets Atropine Sulphatis    *    *    *   1-60 Gr.."
and "Tablet Triturates * * * Atropine Sulphate 1/100 Grain," borne on 
the labels of the respective products, were false and misleading, in that the 
said statements represented that each of said tablets contained the,amount 
of the product declared on the label thereof, whereas the said tablets contained 
less than so declared.
On November 16, 1926, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $400.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.