17796. Adulteration of ether.     IT. S. v.  184 Cans of Ether.     Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & JL). No. 24700. 
I. S. No. 017167.     S. No. 3027.)
Samples of ether from the herein-described interstate shipment having been 
found to contain peroxide, indicating deterioration, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Vii'ginia.
On April 7, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 184 quarter-pound cans of ether, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Richmond, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, New York, N. Y., on or about September 
11, 1929, and had been transported from the State of New York into the State 
of Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Examination 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 United States Pharmacopoeia, and differed 
from the standard of purity as determined by the test laid down in said phar- 
macopoeia, in that it contained peroxide.
On October 6, 1930, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.