14860. Adulteration and misbranding of morphine sulphate tablets and atropine sulphate tablets. IT. S. v. Scbleflelin & Co. Flea of guilty. Fine, $400. (P. & D. No. 19776. I. S. Nos. 4418-x, 7005-x, 7251-x, 7263-x.) On October 8, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York,-acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an information against Schieffelin & Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, in various consignments, on or about May 5, 1925, from the State of New York into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of morphine sulphate tablets, and on or about May 29 and September 12 and 21, 1925, respectively, from the State of New York into the State of New Jersey, of quantities of morphine sulphate tablets and atropine sulphate tablets, which products were adulterated and misbranded. The articles were labeled, variously: " Tablet Triturates * * * Morphine Sulphate 1-2 Grain Schieffelin & Co. New York"; "Tablets * * * Morphine Sulphatis 1-8 Gr. (8 mgm) Schieffelin & Co. New York"; "Tablets Atropine Sulphatis * * * 1-60 Gr. Prepared by Schieffelin & Co. New York "; " Tablet Tritu- rates * * * Atropine Sulphate 1/100 Grain Schieffelin & Co. New York." Adulteration of the articles was alleged in substance in the information for the reason that their strength and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under which they were sold, in that the labels represented that the said tablets contained % grain of morphine sulphate, % grain of morphine sulphate, ^ grain of atropine sulphate, or you grain of atropine sulphate, as the case might be, whereas each of said tablets contained less of the product than represented on the label thereof, the alleged % grain morphine sulphate tablets containing not more than 0.428 grain of morphine sulphate each, the alleged % grain morphine sulphatis tablets containing not more than 0.101 grain of morphine sulphate each, the alleged ^ grain atropine sulphatis tablets containing not more than 0.0117 grain of atropine sulphate each, and the alleged rear grain atropine sulphate tablets containing not more than 0.00685 grain of atropine sulphate each. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, " Tablet Triturates * * * Morphine Sulphate 1-2 Grain," " Tablets * * * Mor- phine Sulphatis y8 Gr.," "Tablets Atropine Sulphatis * * * 1-60 Gr.." and "Tablet Triturates * * * Atropine Sulphate 1/100 Grain," borne on the labels of the respective products, were false and misleading, in that the said statements represented that each of said tablets contained the,amount of the product declared on the label thereof, whereas the said tablets contained less than so declared. On November 16, 1926, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $400. W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.