5855. Adulteration of solution of citrate of magnesia. V. S. * * * T. 
Charles E. Lloyd. Plea of guilty. Fine e> $20. (F. & D. No. 8405. I. S. 
No. 4701-m.)
On September 26, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police 
court of said District an information against Charles E. Lloyd, Washington, 
D. C, alleging that the defendant did offer for sale and sell at the District 
aforesaid, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, a quantity of an article 
labeled in part, " Solution Citrate of Magnesia," which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results:
Citric acid (total)   (grams per 100 cc) 
5.03
Magnesium oxid (gram per 100 cc) 
0.96
A'dulteration of the article was alleged hr the information for the reason 
that it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States Pharma- 
copoeia and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as 
determined by the tests laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia official at the time 
of investigation of the article, in that it contained in 100 mils of the solution, 
magnesium citrate corresponding to 0.96 gram of magnesium oxid, whereas 
the said Pharmacopoeia provides that 100 mils of the solution shall contain 
magnesium citrate corresponding to not less than 1.5 grams of magnesium oxid; 
and in that said article contained in 100 rails of the solution 5.03 grams of 
citrate (citric) acid, whereas said Pharmacopoeia provides that it should cbn- 
tain 33 grams of citrate (citric) acid in 350 mils of the solution, equivalent 
to 9.43 grams of citrate (citric) acid per 100 mils of the solution; and the 
standard of strength, quality, and purity of the said article was not declared on 
the container thereof.
On September 26, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.