9299. Adulteration and Misbranding of Aletris. U. S. . * * * v. Fred- 
crick H. Wrede and Fx-ed J^sing-e ("Wrede & Lange). Picas of 
guilty.     Fine, $1.     (F. & D. No. 14547.     I. S. No. 13170-r.)
On April 25, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern DJ strict of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Frederick H. Wrede and Fred Lange, copartners, trading as Wrede & Lange, 
New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about September 24, 1919, from the State of New 
York into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity consisting ,01" 5 bales of 
Aletris, which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in 
part, (shipping bale) "Aletris   *   *   *   From Wrede & Lange, New York."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the presence of 24.4 per cent of ash.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it was a. product purporting to be Aletris and which yielded 24.4 per cent 
of ash, whereas the National Formulary provided that Aletris should be de- 
rived from the dried rhizome and roots of Aletris farinosa, which should not 
yield more than 16 per cent of ash.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, "Aletris," 
borne on the shipping bales aforesaid, regard.ng the article and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it repre- 
sented that the said article was Aletris N. F., to wit, a product which con- 
formed to the standard prescribed by the National Formulary, whereas, in 
truth and in fact, said article did not conform to the standard prescribed by 
the National Formulary.
On April 27, 1921, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of .$1.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.