28474. Adulteration and misbranding of orange bitters.     IT. S. v. 62 Bottles of
Orange   Bitters.    Default    decree    of   condemnation   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 41311.    Sample No. 63234-C.)
This product contained about 35 percent of carbitol, a solvent composed of a 
glycol or a glycol ether, or both, poisons.
On January 7, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 62 bottles of orange bitters at 
Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about October 2, 1937, from San Francisco, Calif., by Cresta Blanca 
Beverage Co., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Cresta Orange Bitters 
*    *    *    Cresta Blanca Bev. Co. San Francisco, Calif."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that an article containing a glycol or 
glycol ether, or both, poisons, had been substituted in whole or in part for 
orange bitters, a food flavor, which it purported to be; and in that it contained 
an added poisonous ingredient, a glycol or glycol ether, or both, which might 
have rendered it injurious to health.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the name "Orange Bitters" 
was false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser as 
applied to an article containing a glycol or glycol ether, or both, poisons; and! 
in that it was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article,, 
orange bitters, a food flavor.
On March 22, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.