27423. Adulteration   and misbranding of  thyme  leaves.     U.   S.   v.   17  Bags   of
Thyme    Leaves.     Default   decree   of   condemnation   and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 38961.    Sample no. 14581-C.)
The appearance of this product and the fact that it yielded approximately 
two-thirds the amount of volatile oil that it should yield, indicated the presence 
of exhausted leaves.
On January 18, 1937, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 17 bags of thyme 
leaves at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about December 21, 1936, by Sokol & Co. from New York, N. Y., 
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that thyme leaves from which a 
portion of the volatile oil content had been removed, had been mixed and 
packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or 
strength and had been substituted wholly or in part for thyme leaves, which 
it purported to be; and in that a valuable constituent of the article, namely, 
volatile oil, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that it was offered for sale under 
the distinctive name of another article, namely, thyme leaves.
On April 30, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.