17063. Adulteration of  etber.    U.  S.  v.  3  Cases  of Ether.    Default  decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 24008, 
I. S. No. 015159.    S. No. 2279.)
On September 17, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Indiana, 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 3 cases each containing twenty-five 1-pound tins of ether, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at Indianapolis, Ind., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. 
Louis, Mo., on or about January 4, 1929, and transported from the State of 
Missouri into the State of Indiana, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that it 
contained peroxide.
The article was labeled in part: " Ether for Anesthesia."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it was 
sold under a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia and differed 
from the standard of purity as specified by that authority, in that it contained 
peroxide.
On December 21, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.