16872. Adulteration of ether. TJ. S. v. One Hundred and THvelve l-l?ouna 
Cans   of  Bther.    Default  decree  of  destruction  entered.     (F.  & D.
No. 24079.    I. S, No. 07161.    S   No. 2320.)
On September 24, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of fifty 1-pound cans of ether, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned by the Mallinckrodt 
Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
St. Louis, Mo? in two consignments, on or about May 10, 1927, and October 19, 
1927. and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of California, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. On October 
9, 1929, the said libel was amended to cover one hundred and twelve 1-pound 
cans of the product.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that the ether 
contained peroxide.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it was 
sold under a name recognized in the U, S. Pharmacopoeia and differed from 
the standard of purity as specified by that authority.
On October 28, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
wa.s entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.