5603. Adulteration and misbranding? of birch oil. TJ. S. * * * v. 3 
Packiases * ? * of * * * Bix*ch Oil. Consent decree of con- 
demnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   ordered   released   on   bond.
(F. & D. Ko. 6618.    I. S. No. 3813-k.    S. No. E-321.)
On June 15, 1915, 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 a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of three packages, containing approximately 150 pounds of birch 
oil, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about May 31, 1915, by J. E. 
Johnson, Hickory, N. (X, and transported from the State of North Carolina into 
the State of New York, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason thai it 
was offered for sale as birch oil, when, in fact, it consisted largely of methyl 
salicylate and a low boiling point petroleum oil, which had been mixed and 
packed with and substituted for oil of birch.
Misbranding of ihe article was alleged for the reason that it was offered 
for sale and invoiced as birch oil, whereas, in truth and in fact, it consisted 
largely of methyl salicylate and a low boiling point petroleum oil, which had 
been substituted for the pure oil.
On July 16, 1915, the said James B. Johnson, claimant, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be delivered to the said claimant 
upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in 
part that the product should be correctly labeled.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.