13550.  Misbranding   of   morphine    sulphate    tablets   and   heroin    tablets. 
U. S. v. the P. J. Noyes Co.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $500 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 19310.     I. S. Nos. 2415-v. 15455-v.)
On March 6, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Hampshire, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
P. J. Noyes Co., a corporation, Lancaster, N. H., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about March 24, 1924, 
from the State of New Hampshire into the State of Massachusetts, of a 
quantity of morphine sulphate tablets, and on or about April 8, 1924, from the 
State of New Hampshire into the State of New York, of a quantity of heroin 
tablets, both consignments of which were misbranded. The articles were 
labeled, respectively, in part: " 500 Compressed Tablets Morphine Sulphate 
* * * 1-8 Grain * * * The P. J. Noyes Company Lancaster, N. H." and 
" 500 Tablet Triturates Heroin * * * 1-24 Grain The P. J. Noyes Com- 
pany Lancaster, N. H."
Analysis of a sample of the morphine sulphate tablets by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of this department showed that they averaged not more than 0.107 
grain of morphine sulphate to each tablet; analysis of a sample of the heroin 
tablets by said bureau showed that they averaged not more than 0.0294 grain 
of heroin to each tablet.
Misbranding of the articles was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statements, to wit, " Tablets Morphine Sulphate * * * 1-8 Grain " 
and " Tablet Triturates Heroin * * * 1-24 Grain," borne on the labels 
of the respective products, were false and misleading, in that the said state- 
ments represented that the articles contained one-eighth grain of morphine 
sulphate or one twenty-fourth grain of heroin, as the case might be, whereas 
the said tablets did not contain the amounts of the respective articles 
declared on the labels but did contain less amounts.
On May G. 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $500 and costs.
R. W. DUNLAP. Actina Secretary of A aviculture.