11773. Adulteration of chloroform.     IT.  S. v.  398 Tins  of Chloroform.     I>e-
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.  &
I>. No. 16602.    I. S. No. 13933-t.    S. No. W-1145.)
On July 8, 1922, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, 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 condemnation of 398 tins of chloroform, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Berkeley, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
New York, N. Y., May 24,1922, and transported from the State of New York into 
the State of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Quarter Pound Chloroform 
U. S. P.   *    *    *   Anesthesia."
Analysis of a sample 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, chlorinated decomposition products, and impurities 
decomposable by sulphuric acid.
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 Pharmacopceia, official at the time of investi- 
gation.
On May 24, 1923, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWAED M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.