NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2109.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  AND  MISBRANDING  OF  TURPENTINE.
On June 26, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict an information against the United States Turpentine & Lin- 
seed Oil Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on July 21, 
1910, from the State of New York into the State of Massachusetts, 
of a quantity of turpentine which was adulterated and misbranded. 
The product was labeled: "Pure spirits of turpentine C. T. Com- 
pany 23-6-21 N. Y. Y. Co. Tampa * * * H. & J. Brewer 
Co., Springfield, Mass. Shipped and invoiced by the United States 
Turpentine and Linseed Oil Company, 142-4 Front Street, New 
York, N. Y."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity of 
turpentine at 20° C, 0.8613; refruitive index of turpentine at 20° C, 
1.4682; color of turpentine in mm, 80; odor of turpentine, turpentine; 
polymerization residue in per cent, 8.4; refruitive index of residue at 
20° C, 1.4715; consistency of residue, clear and limpid. Adulteration 
of the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it 
was sold under the professed standard and quality of pure spirits of 
turpentine, whereas in truth and in fact its strength and purity 
fell below said professed standard under which it was sold, in that it 
was not pure spirits of turpentine, but was a mixture of spirits of 
turpentine and mineral oil. Misbranding was alleged for the reason 
that the label, set forth above, regarding the product and the ingre- 
dients contained therein was false and misleading, in that said prod- 
uct was not pure spirits of turpentine, but was a mixture of spirits 
of turpentine and mineral oil.
On October 16, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court suspended sentence.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 13, 1912.
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