6402.  Adulteration of elixir of iron, quinine, and strychnine.    IT. S.   *    *    *?
v. Charles W. Wagner,     Plea of guilty.    Fine, $20.     (F. & D. No. 8509.
I. S. No. 2684-m.)
On November 21, 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 the District aforesaid an information against Charles W. Wagner,?
Washington, D. C, alleging that said defendant, on February 9, 1917, at the?
District aforesaid, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, did offer for sale?
and sell a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Elix. Iron, Quinine and?
Strychnine * * " Chas. W. Wagner, Pharmacist, 5th St. & N. Y. Ave.,?
N. W., Washington, D. C," which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the following results:
Total alkaloids (gram per 100 cc)?
    0.32
Calculated to quinine hydrochloride (gram per 100s,cc)?      . 39
Total sugars after inversion (grams per 100 cc)?
14.6
Glycerin: Absent.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information in that it was?
sold under and by a name recognized in. the National Formulary, and differed?
from the standard of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the tests?
laid down in the said National Formulary, official at the time of investigation?
of the article, in that the article contained in 1,000 mils 3.9 grams of quinine?
hydrochlorid, whereas the said National Formulary provides that it shall con??
tain in 1,000 mils 8.750 grams of quinine hydrochlorid; anxj ,in that in 1,000?
mils of the article there was approximately 146 grams of sugar, which is not?
mentioned as an ingredient of elixir of iron, quinine, and strychnine in the?
said Formulary; and the standard of strength, quality, and purity of the?
article was not declared on the container thereof.
On November 21, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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