(jr. J. 10.) 
MISBRANDING OF COCAIN HYDROCHLORID.
In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Food and 
Drug Act of June 30, 1906, and of regulation 6 of the rules and regu- 
lations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on the 22d 
day of June, 1908, in the police court of the District of Columbia in 
a criminal prosecution by the United States against J. Roach Abell 
for violation of section 2 of the aforesaid act in the sale and offer for 
sale in the said District of Columbia of a misbranded drug—that is 
to say, cocain hydrochloric, a cocain derivative, contained in a pack- 
age which failed to bear any label or statement of the quantity or 
proportion of cocain hydrochlorid contained therein, the said J. 
Roach Abell, defendant, entered a plea of guilty, whereupon the court 
imposed upon him a fine of $100.
The following is a statement of the facts out of which the case 
arose:
On April 5, 1908, a small package of cocain was obtained through 
purchase by an inspector of the Department of Agriculture from 
J. Roach Abell, at his place of business located at Four-and-a-half 
and F streets SW., Washington, D. C. The package was not labeled 
and bore no mark of any character to show the nature of its contents. 
The contents of the package were duly analyzed in the Bureau of 
Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, and found to consist essen- 
tially of cocain hydrochloric. The preparation was misbranded in 
violation of section 8 of the act because the package in which it was 
sold failed to bear a label or statement thereon of the quantity or 
proportion of cocain hydrochloric contained therein.
On April 9, 1908, the Secretary of Agriculture accorded the said 
defendant a hearing. As there was nothing disclosed at this hearing 
tending to show any fault or error in the result of the aforesaid 
analysis, the facts were duly reported to the Attorney-General and 
by him to the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
who, on the 6th day of June, 1908, filed an information in the police 
court of the said District alleging the sale of misbranded cocain 
hydrochloric, with the result hereinbefore stated.
H. W. WILEY, 
F. L. DUNLAP, 
GEO. P. MCCABE, 
Board of Food and Drug Inspection.
Approved:
W. L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July IS, 1908.