28668. Adulteration and misbranding of artificial glycerin. U. S. -v. 550 Pounds 
of Artificial Glycerin.     Default decree of condemnation and destruction.
(F. & D. No. 41091.    Sample No. 58031-C.)
This product contained about 60 percent of diethylene glycol, a poison.
On December 17, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 550 pounds of artificial 
glycerin at Petersburg, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about February 17, 1937, from New York, N. Y., by moral- 
ity Laboratories, Inc., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "From Florasynth 
Laboratories, Inc.    *   *    *   New York   *    *    *   Artificial Glycerine."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that a substance, a mixture of sugars, water, 
and a glycol, a poison, had been substituted for artificial glycerin, a food solvent, 
which the article purported to be; and in that it contained an added poisonous or 
deleterious ingredient, a glycol, which might have rendered it injurious to health.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Artificial 
Glycerine" was false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the 
purchaser when applied to an article containing a glycol, a poison; and in that it 
was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, artificial 
glycerin.
On February 4,1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.