NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2377.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF OIL OF BENZALDEHYDE OR SYNTHETIC OIL OF
BITTER ALMOND.
On July 6, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against the Dodge & Olcott Co., a New 
York corporation, doing business and having an office at St. Louis, 
Mo., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on July 5, 1911, from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Utah, of a quantity of oil benzaldehyde, otherwise known as 
synthetic oil of bitter almond, which was adulterated. The prod- 
uct was labeled: "Dodge & Olcott Co. New York. The standard 
of quality. D. & O. Essential oils, Drugs, Chemicals, Flavoring 
and Perfumery Materials. Benzaldehyde, Synthetic Oil Bitter 
Almond. Imported by Dodge & Olcott Co., Factory, Bayonne, 
N. J.    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, 
1.0461 at 25° C; benzaldehyde, 94.7 per cent; free benzoic acid, 
0.96 per cent; chlorin, 0.225 per cent; hydrocyanic acid, absent. 
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the 
reason that it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United 
States Pharmacopoeia, to wit, benzaldehyde, and differed from the 
standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test 
laid down in said Pharmacopoeia official at the time of shipment 
and investigation, in that said article contained chlorin products 
and in that respect differed from said standard of strength, quality, 
and purity laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, which Pharmacopoeia
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does not provide for or permit the presence of chlorin in the prod- 
uct, and the true standard of strength, quality, and purity of said 
product was not plainly stated upon the bottle or other container 
thereof.
On December 20, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $10 and 
costs.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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