7850, Adulteration, and misbranding of oil of sweet bircii. V. S. * * * v. 
3 0 Founds of a Product Purporting to be Oil of Sweet Birch. De- 
fault decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered 
sold.     (F. & D. No. 12114.     I. S. No. 545-r.    S. No. E-1930.)
On January 19, 1920, 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 19 pounds of a product purporting to be oil of sweet birch, 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about January 5,1920, by J. E. 
Ray, Elk Park, N. C, aud transported from the State of North Carolina into 
the State of New York, and cliarging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it contained synthetic methyl salicylate.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in that it was sold under 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 the
United States Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the investigation, and its 
own standard of strength, quality, and purity was not plainly stated upon its 
container, and in that its strength and purity fell below the professed standard 
and quality under which it was sold. It was further adulterated in that 
synthetic methyl salicylate had been mixed and packed with, and substituted 
in part for, the product.
The article was mibbranded in that it was an imitation of, and offered for 
sale under the name of, another article, to wit, oil of sweet birch, and was 
further misbranded in that it was an imitation of, and offered for sale under 
the distinctive name of, another article, to wit, oil of sweet birch.
On April 17, 1920, no claimant having appeared, decree of condemnation and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
sold at public auction by the United States marshal, labeled as an imitation of 
oil of sweet birch, according to section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.