NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2746.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U.   S.   v.   Ma grit ns.   Mabee   &  Reynard.    Plea   of  guilty.    Fine,   $50.
ADULTERATION OF OIL OF LAVENDER FLOWERS.
On August 6, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against Magnus, Mabee & Reynard, a corpo- 
ration, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on June 14, 1911, from the 
State of New York into the State of Georgia, of a quantity of oil 
of lavender flowers which was adulterated. The product was labeled: 
"4 oz. net weight. Oil Lavender Flowers. Mt. Blanc. Magnus & 
Lauer. Packed expressly for Hirsch and Pigman, Wholesale Drug- 
gists, Savannah, Ga."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity at 
25° C, 0.9004; refruitive index at 20° C, 1.4655; rotation at 20° C, 
—1.94°; soluble in three volumes of TO per cent alcohol; esters as 
linalyl acetate, 17.71 per cent; deficient in esters. Adulteration of 
the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it 
was sold under and by a name, to wit, oil of lavender flowers, recog- 
nized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, 
and differed from the standards of strength, quality, and purity as 
determined by the tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia, official 
at the time of investigation, and the standard of strength, quality,
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and purity of the product was not stated on the container in which 
it was offered for sale.
On May 22, 1913, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 
to the information, and on May 23, 1913, the court imposed a fine 
of $50.
C. F. MARVIN, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., October 14-, 1913.
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