26109. Adulteration of  compound  solution  of  iodine.    U.   S.  v.  Abe  Schnlder
(Capitol  Towers  Pharmacy).     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $25.     Execution 
of sentence suspended.    (F. & D. no. 28106.    I. S. no. 37785.)
This case involved compound solution of iodine that was found to differ from 
the pharmaeopoeial standard.
On October 31, 1934. the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court 
of the District of Columbia an information against Abe Schnider trading as
the Capitol Towers Pharmacy, Washington, D. C, alleging that on or about 
ovember 2, 1931, the defendant had sold in the District of Columbia a quan- 
tity of compound solution of iodine that was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was sold under a name 
recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia and differed from the stand- 
ard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test laid down therein 
since the pharmacopoeia specified that liquor iodi compositus, viz, compound 
solution of iodine, should contain in each 100 cubic centimeters not less than 
4.8 grams of iodine and not less than 9.8 grams of potassium iodide; whereas 
the article contained less iodine and less potassium iodide than so specified, 
namely, not more than 4.297 grams of iodine and not more than 8.96 grams 
of potassium iodide in each 100 cubic centimeters; and the standard of 
strength, quality, and purity of the article was not declared upon the container.
On March 22, 1935, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $25 but ordered that execution of sentence be suspended.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.