16946. Adulteration and Misbranding of sodium bicarbonate. U. S. v. 
Jawes Good (Inc.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $5. (F. & D. No. 23736 
I. S. No, 03412.)
On July 8, 1929, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the said district an information against 
James G. Good (Inc.), a corporation trading at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging ship- 
ment by said company in violation of the food and drags act, on or about 
September 20, 1928, from the State of Pennsylvania into the State of Maryland, 
of a quantity of sodium bicarbonate which was adulterated and misbranded. 
The article was- labeled in part: " One Pound Sodium Bicarbonate U. S. P. 
James Good, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa."
Analyses of samples of the article by this department showed that some of 
them contained sodium fluoride varying in quantity from 80 per cent to 92 
per cent.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it was aold undei a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia and 
diii'ered from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the 
test laid down in the said pharmacopoeia official at the time of investigation, in 
that it contained a large amount of sodium fluoride, whereas said pharmacopoeia 
provided that sodium bicarbonate consist of not less than 99 per cent of 
NallCOj, to wit, pure sodium bicarbonate, and the standard of the strength, 
quality, and purity of the said article was not declared on the container thereof. 
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the strength and purity 
of the article fell below the professed standard and quality under which it was 
sold, in that it was represented to bo sodium bicarbonate, whereas it was a 
mixture composed in large part of sodium fluoride.
Misbranding was alleged ior the reason that the statement " Sodium Bicar- 
bonate U. S. P.," borne on the label, was false and misleading in that it repre- 
sented that the article was sodium bicarbonate which conformed to the test laid 
down in the United Stales Pharmacopoeia, whereas it was not. Misbranding 
was alleged for the further reason that the article was composed in large part 
of sodium fluoride and was offered for sale and sold under the name of another 
article, to wit, sodium bicarbonate.
On September 19, 1929, plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.