17052. Adulteration of ether.    U. S. v. 91 Quarter-Pound Tins of Ether for 
Anesthesia.    Default decree  of destruction  entered.     (F & D. No
24007.    I. S. No. 019552.    S. No. 2278.)
On September 14, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, 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 con- 
demnation of 91 quarter-pound tins of ether, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at St. Paul, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, from St. Louis, Mo., on or about August 
28, 1928, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Minne- 
sota, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that it con- 
tained peroxide.  
The article was labeled in part: " Ether for Anesthesia."
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 as specified by that authority, in that it contained 
peroxide.
On January 9, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree 
was entered by the court ordering that the product be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
AETHXTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.