28597. Adulteration and misbranding of Glyketone.    U. S. v. 1 Bottle and 1 Bot¬
tle of Glyketone.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.
(F. & D. Nos. 41092, 41093.    Sample Nos. 71222-C, 71227-C.)
This product consisted of a glycol or a glycol ether, or both, poisons.
On December 13, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of two bottles of Glyke- 
tone at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about March 15, 1937, by P. R. Dreyer, Inc., from New 
York, N. Y., and charging adulteration and' misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "P. R. Dreyer, Inc., 
New York, N. Y., Glyketone."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that a glycol or a glycol ether, a poison, 
had been substituted in whole or in part for Glyketone, a food-flavor solvent, 
which it purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged in that the statement "Glyketone" was false and 
misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser when applied to a 
glycol or a glycol ether, a poison; and in that the article was sold under the 
distinctive name of another article, Glyketone, a food-flavor solvent.
On January 21, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.