29792. Adulteration of   nitrous   oxide.     U.   S.  v.   One  Tank  of   Nitrous   Oxide.
Consent decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 43922. 
Sample No. 33253-D.)
This product fell below the standard prescribed in the United States Pharma- 
copoeia for nitrous oxide in that it contained less than 95 percent of nitrogen 
monoxide.
On September 23, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one tank of nitrous 
oxide at Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about August 4, 1938, by Wall Chemicals, Inc., from Detroit, 
Mich.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration was alleged in that the article was sold under a name recognized 
in the United States Pharmacopoeia, namely, nitrous oxide, but differed from 
the standard of strength, quality, or purity as determined by the test laid 
down in said pharmacopoeia and its own standard of strength, quality, or 
purity was not stated upon the container.
On November 3, 1938, the claimant having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.