27576. Adulteration of  dicalcium phosphate.     U.   S.  v.  860 Jars   of Dicalcium
Phosphate.     Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D.
No. 35775.    Sample No. 33320-B.)
This product contained an excessive amount of fluorine.
On July 19, 1935, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 360 jars of dicalcium 
phosphate at Chicago, m., alleging that it had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about May 21, 1935, by Parke, Davis & Co., from Detroit, Mich., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: "One Fourth Pound D C P 340 (Dicalcium Phosphate) 
Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added poisonous and 
deleterious ingredient, to wit, fluorine, in an amount which might have rendered 
it injurious to health. 
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On June 3, 1937, the answer and claim of Parke, Davis & Co., the sole in- 
tervener, having been withdrawn, judgment of condemnation was entered 
and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.