20938. Adulteration and Misbranding of powdered extract of belladonna 
leaves. IT. S. v. Bnrrongh Bros. Manufacturing Co. Plea of guilty. 
Fine, ?50.    (F. & D. no. 29400.    I. S. no. 10617-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of powdered extract of bella- 
donna leaves which were labeled as conforming with the United States Phar- 
macopoeia, and which, upon analysis, was found to yield a smaller proportion 
of the alkaloids of belladonna leaves than the pharmacopeial product.
On March 27, 1933, the United States attorney for1 the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Burrough Bros. Manufacturing Co., a corpora- 
tion trading at Baltimore, Md., alleging shipment by said company, in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 4 and March 22, 
1932, from the State of Maryland into the State of New York, of a quantity of 
powdered extract of belladonna leaves that was adulterated and misbranded. 
The article was labeled in part: " Burrough * * * Powdered Extract Bella- 
donna Leaves U.S.P.X Atropa Belladonna) * * * Containing not less 
than 1.18% nor more than 1.32% of Alkaloids of Belladonna Leaves."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in 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 the pharmacopoeia official at the time of investigation 
of the article, since it yielded not more than 1.07 percent of the alkaloids of 
belladonna leaves, whereas the pharmacopoeia provided that extract of bella- 
donna leaves should yield not less than 1.18 percent of the alkaloids of bella- 
donna leaves, and the standard of strength, quality, and purity of the article 
was not declared on the container thereof. Adulteration was alleged for the 
further reason that the strength and purity of the article fell below the pro- 
fessed standard and quality under which it was sold, in that it was represented 
to be powdered extract of belladonna leaves which conformed to the pharma- 
copoeia, tenth revision, and which contained not less than 1.18 percent of the 
alkaloids of belladonna leaves, whereas it was not as represented, since it 
contained not more than 1.07 percent of the alkaloids of belladonna leaves.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, " Powdered Ex- 
tract Belladonna Leaves U.S.P.X * * * Containing not less than 1.18% 
nor more than 1.32% of Alkaloids of Belladonna Leaves", were false and 
misleading.
On March 28, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.