17381. Adulteration of etber.    V. S. v. 56 Cans of Ether.    Default decree of
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 24175. I. S. 
No. 020466.    S. No. 2412.)
On October 28, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of fifty-six 1-pound cans of ether, remaining in the original 
packages at Dallas, Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Ohio Chemical & Manufacturing Co., from Cleveland, Ohio, on or about Sep- 
tember 28, 1929, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of 
Texas, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that the ether 
contained peroxide and excess acid.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it was 
sold under a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, and differed 
from the standard of purity laid down in said pharmacopoeia, in that it 
contained peroxide and excess acidity.
On January 13, 1930, 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.
ARTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.