5864.  Adulteration of   chloroform,   liniment.     U.   S.    *    *    *    v.   William   A. 
Boyd   (Boyd's  Pharmacy).     Plea  of guilty.     Fine,  $20.     (F.  & D.  No.
8414.    I.  S. No. 4538-m.)
On October 3, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court 
of said district an information against William A. Boyd, trading as Boyd's 
Pharmacy, 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 9, 1917, a quantity of chloroform liniment which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the product contained no camphor.
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 Pharma- 
copoeia, and differed from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as de- 
termined by the tests laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia official at the time 
of investigation of the article, in that said article contained no 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 the standard of strength, quality, and 
purity of the article was not declared on the container thereof.
On October 3, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine oi $20.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.