BUKEAU OF CHEMISTRY. 423 



strength is greater even than m the case of other substances whose 

 sophistication would prove no more serious than perpetrating a fraud 

 upon the purchaser. Several instances of violations of the law were 

 developed in the case of adulterated crude drugs, not indigenous to 

 this country, which were imported tlirough ports not having labora- 

 tory inspection, and thus escaping the examination which is always 

 made at laboratory ports. In addition to these, there were also ob- 

 tained official samples of many varieties of native as w^ell as imported 

 crude drugs, which were forwarded to the drug division for exami- 

 nation. 



WORK OF THE INSPECTION LABORATORIES, 



Samples of interstate foods and drugs taken by the inspectors 

 and samples of imported foods taken at the ports of entry are referred 

 for analysis and report to the appro])riate laboratory in Wasliington 

 or to one of the 21 branch laboratories in other cities. The reports 

 of the branch laboratories on these samples are referred to the 

 appropriate laboratory in Washington for fDing, and in case of those 

 samples believed to be in ^dolation of the law for the preparation of 

 the proper information for the Solicitor's Office. The offices of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry in Wasliington charged in this manner with 

 the preparation of cases are: The Wasliington food inspection 

 laboratory and the laboratory^ of food technology of the division of 

 foods, the Washington drug inspection laboratory of the di^'ision of 

 drugs, the water laboratory and the cattle food and grain laboratory 

 of the miscellaneous division, and the dairy laboratory. In addition 

 to this other laboratories and divisions make both original and 

 check anah'ses of samples, but report their results to one of the 

 laboratories mentioned above for the preparation of the case for the 

 Solicitor. In tliis class may be mentioned especially the sugar 

 laboratory and the microchemical and bacteriological laboratories, 

 whose cases are prepared by the Washington food inspection labora- 

 tory, and the leather and paper laboratory, which examines samples 

 of turpentine and reports its results to the division of drugs. 



Washington Drug Inspection Laboratory. 



During the past year the Wasliington drug inspection laboratory 

 has examined 752 samples as follows: Eighty check analyses of 

 imported drugs, 60 check analyses of domestic drugs, and 73 import 

 products coming directly under this laboratory^ the remainder, 

 529 samples, being domestic products; 231 of the latter were found to 

 be either adulterated or misbranded or both, and 421 cases of mter- 

 state drugs judged to be adulterated or misbranded were prepared in 

 this laboratory and reported to the chief of the bureau for trans- 

 mission to the Solicitor. Two hundred and seventy-five cases on 

 imported drugs, referred from the port laboratories for action, 

 were prepared for the Board of Food and Drug Inspection, 248 of 

 which were found to be contrary to law and 27 were released ^\^tllOut 



grejudice. A number of consignments of domestic drugs have 

 een recommended for seizure on the ground of being misbranded or 

 adulterated or both. 



