10382. Adulteration  and  Misbranding of Anti-ferment.     TJ.   S.     *     *     *     v.
W. B. Wood Mfs. Co., a Corporation.     Plea of grnllty.     Fine, $300.
(F. & D. No. 14736.     I. S. No. 5'543-r.)
On September 24, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, 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 W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, OQ or about April 12, 
1919, from the State of Missouri into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of Anti- 
ferment which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in 
part: 'Anti-ferment * * * harmless. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., Manufacturing 
Chemists, St. Louis, Mo.   *    *    *."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the said sample contained 3.4 per cent of ammonium 
fluorid.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it contained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient, to wit, ammo- 
nium fluorid, which might render the said article injurious to health.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " harm- 
less," borne on the label attached to the carboy containing the article, regarding 
it and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and mis- 
leading in that the said statement represented that the article was harmless, 
and for the further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to 
deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was harmless, whereas, 
in truth and in fact, it was not harmless.
On April 4, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the- court imposed a fine of $300.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.