11722. Adulteration of chloroform.    TJ. S. v. 23 Tins, et al., of Chloroform.
Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (P.
&   D.   Nos.   16461,   16501,   16502,   16503,   16504.    S.   Nos.   Er-3982,   E-4004, 
E^4008, E-4009, E--4010.)
On June 26, 29, and 30, 1922, respectively, the United States attorney for 
the Western District of Pennsylvania, acting upon reports by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district 
libels praying the seizure and condemnation of 376 tins or cans of chloroform, 
in various lots at New Castle, McKeesport, Emlenton, and Pittsburgh, Pa., 
respectively, alleging that the article had been shipped from New York, N. Y., 
between the dates of March 15 and May 24, 1922, and transported from the 
State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: 
" Chloroform    *    *    *   For Anaesthesia."
Analyses of samples of the article "by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it was turbid, upon evaporation it left a foreign odor, 
and it contained chlorides, impurities decomposable by sulphuric acid, and 
chlorinated decomposition products.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels 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, official at the time of the investi- 
gation.
On April 24, 1923, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.