1067. Adulteration of cotton.    U. S. v. 63 Gross Packages of Cotton.    Default
decree of condemnation.   Product ordered delivered to the American Red
Cross.     (F. D. C. No. 8426.    Sample No. 14007-F.)
On September 25, 1942, the United States attorney for the Southern District
of California filed a libel against 63 gross packages of cotton at Los Angeles,
Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about March 13 and 19,
and April 9, 1942, by the Hampton Manufacturing Co., from Carlstadt, N. J.;
and charging that it was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: "Blue
Cross Cotton   *    *    *   Weight not less than 25 grains."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it purported to be and was
represented as a drug, the name of which is recognized in the United States
Pharmacopoeia, but its quality and purity fell below the standard set forth
therein, since the article was not sterile but was contaminated with viable
gram-positive nonsporulating bacilli.
On November 24, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna-
tion was entered and the product was ordered delivered to a local chapter of
the American Red Cross.