NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2123.
Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF  OIL OF ROSEMARY FLOWERS.
On June 26, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district 
an information against Arthur A. Stillwell & Co., a corporation, New 
York, N. Y.; alleging the sale by said company on October 31, 1910, 
under a guaranty, of a quantity of oil of rosemary flowers which was 
adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, and which said 
product, without having been changed in any particular, was, on 
November 3, 1910, shipped by the purchaser thereof from the State of 
New York into the State of Ohio. The product was labeled: "Oil 
Rosemary Flowers; Arthur A. Stillwell, New York," 1 lb., Guaranteed 
under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, Serial Number 1252."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity at 
25° C, 0.8968; optical rotation, —0.2°; optical rotation of first 10 
per cent fruition, —1.8°; bornyl acetate, 1.84 per cent; borneol, 9.44; 
soluble in one-half volume of 90 percent alcohol; soluble in 7 volumes 
of 80 per cent alcohol. Adulteration of the product was alleged in the 
information for the reason that it was sold under and by a name rec- 
ognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, to wit, oil of rosemary, 
and it differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as 
determined by the test laid down in said Pharmacopoeia official at the 
time of purchase from said defendant and at the time of the shipment 
by the purchaser, in that said Pharmacopoeia provides as a test for 
oil of rosemary that its optical rotation shall be dextrogyrate, whereas 
the optical rotation of the product was laevogyrate, and said Pharmar 
copoeia further provides as a test for oil of rosemary that it should 
contain not less than 2.5 per cent of bornyl acetate and that it should 
contain not less than 10 per cent of borneol, whereas, in truth and in
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fact, it contained 1.84 per cent of bornyl acetate and 9.44 per cent of 
borneol.
On October 16, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court suspended sentence.
WILLIS L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 17, 1912.
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