26114. Adulteration of tincture   of cinchona.     U. S. -v. Benjamin Bass   (Corner
Drug; Store).    Plea of guilty.    Fine. $25.    Execution of sentence sus- 
pended.    (F. & D. no. 28112.    I. S. no. 37558.)
This case involved tincture of cinchona that differed from the standard 
established by the United States Pharmacopoeia.
On October 31, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court 
of the District of Columbia an information against Benjamin Bass trading as 
the Corner Drug Store, Washington, D. C, alleging that on or about November 
2, 1931, the defendant had sold in the District of Columbia a quantity of 
tincture of cinchona that was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was sold under a name 
recognized in the United States Pharmacopeia and differed from the standard 
of strength, quality, and purity as determined by the test laid down therein, 
since it yielded less than 0.8 gram of the alkaloids of cinchona per 100 cubic 
centimeters, namely, not more than 0.44 gram of the alkaloids of cinchona per 
100 cubic centimeters, whereas the pharmacopoeia provided that tincture of 
cinchona should yield not less than 0.8 gram of the alkaloids of cinchona per 
100 cubic centimeters, and the standard of strength, quality, and purity of the 
article was not declared on the container thereof.
On November 6, 1935, the defendant entered a plea of guilty, and the court 
imposed a fine of $25 but ordered that execution of sentence be suspended.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.