11643.?Misbranding   [adulteration]   of   chloroform.    U.   S.   v.   190   Cans   of
Chloroform.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeitnre, and de??
struction.     (F. & D. No. 16551.     S. No. C-3682.)
On July 3, 1922, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court?
of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemna??
tion of 190 cans of chloroform at Cincinnati, Ohio, consigned on or about?
March 6, 1922, alleging that the article had been shipped from New York,?
N. Y., and transported from the State of New York into the State of Ohio, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was?
labeled in part: " Chloroform    *    *    *    For Anaesthesia."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it was turbid instead of clear, upon evaporation it?
left a foreign odor, and it contained hydrochloric acid, impurities decomposable?
by sulphuric acid, and chlorinated decomposition compounds.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel 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 test laid down in said Pharmacopoeia.
On November 18, 1922, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of the court was entered finding the material allegations of the libel to?
be true and the product to be misbranded, and ordering that it be condemned?
and forfeited and destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWARD M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.