5862.  Adulteration and misbranding of chloroform liniment.     V. S.    *    *    * 
v.  Mary H.  Ricliardson  (S. A.  Richardson  &  Co.).     Plea  of guilty.
Fine, $20.     (P. & D. No. 8412.    I. S. No. 4618-m.)
On September 28, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Co- 
lumbia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police 
court of said District an information against Mary H. Richardson, trading as 
S. A. Richardson & Co., Washington, D. C, alleging that said defendant did 
offer for sale and sell at the District aforesaid, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on February 8, 1917, a quantity of an article labeled in part, 
<( Chloroform Liniment," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results:
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
61.16
Chloroform (cc per 100 cc) 
9.72
Camphor (grams per 100 cc) 
4.48
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it was sold under and by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia 
(and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined 
by the tests laid down in said Pharmacopoeia), official at the time of investiga- 
tion of the article, in that in 1,000 mils of the article there were 97.2 mils of 
chloroform, whereas the said Pharmacopoeia provides that in 1,000 mils of the 
article there shall be 300 mils of chloroform; and in that in 1,000 mils of the 
article there were 44.8 grams of camphor, whereas said Pharmacopoeia provides 
that in 1,000 mils of the article there shall be 700 mils of soap liniment and 
that in 700 mils of soap liniment there shall be 31.5 grams of camphor; and in 
that said article contained 61 per cent, by volume, of absolute alcohol, whereas 
said Pharmacopoeia provides that in 1,000 mils of the article there shall be 700 
mils of soap liniment and that in 700 mils of soap liniment there shall be 
approximately 465 mils of absolute alcohol, corresponding to approximately 46.5 
per cent of absolute alcohol by volume; and the standard of the strength, 
quality, and purity of the said article was not declared on the container thereof.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it contained alcohol 
and chloroform, and the label failed to bear a statement of the quantity or 
proportion of alcohol and chloroform contained therein.
On September 28, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.