12975. Adulteration, of chloroform.     17. S. v. 33 Tins, et ai., of Chloroform.
Default   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. Nos. 16478, 16482, 16483.    S. Nos. E-3993, E-3994, E-3996.)
On July 26, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Virginia, 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 103 tins of chloroform, consigned between Sep- 
tember 2, and November 11, 1921, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages in various lots at Winchester, and Staunton, Va., respectively, alleging 
that the article had been shipped from New York, and transported from 
the State of New York into the State of Virginia, 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, upon evaporation it left a foreign 
odor, and it contained impurities decomposable by sulfuric acid, and chlori- 
nated 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 Pharma- 
copoeia, official at the time of investigation, and differed from the standard 
of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test laid down in the 
said pharmacopoeia, and the standard of its strength, quality, and purity was 
not plainly stated on the containers thereof.
On April 24, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JABDINB, Secretary of Agriculture.