1094 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 GENEBAJL OUTLINE OF PROCEDURE. 

 INTERSTATE SAMPLES. 



Official samples of insecticides or fungicides which have entered 

 interstate commerce or liave been manufactured or sold within a 

 Territory or the District of Columbia are collected by authorized 

 sample collectors of the Department of Agriculture and are trans- 

 mitted under seal, accompanied by the necessary evidence of inter- 

 state movement, to the Insecticide and Fungicide Board. Each sam- 

 ple is carefully analyzed and tested to determine whether it is adul- 

 terated or misbranded within the meaning of the Insecticide Act of 

 1910. The results of examination arc then considered by the Insecti- 

 cide and Fungicide Board and if tlic article is found to be in violation 

 of the law recommenchition is made to the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 through the Solicitor of the department, that the responsible parties 

 be cited to a hearmg hi order that they may be given an opportunity 

 to show any fault or error in the findings of the analyst or examiner. 

 Hearings are appointed at such places and are conducted by such 

 officers of the department as may be most convenient for all parties 

 concerned. Reports of hearing proceedings are forwarded to the 

 Insecticide and Fungicide Board for careful review, and if it still 

 appears that any of the provisions of the law have been violated, the 

 facts are certified and all collateral evidence transmitted to the 

 Solicitor, who, in turn, submits the same to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture for reference to the Attorney General and the proper United 

 States attorney, with recommendation that the guilty parties be 

 prosecuted. After judgment of the court, notices of judgment are 

 prepared and given the widest publicity possible. 



Ir the examination of an article discloses neither adulteration nor 

 misbranding, recommendation is made to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture that no further action be taken regarding it. 



IMPORT SAMPLES. 



Insecticides, Paris greens, lead arsenates, and fungicides imported 

 into the United States from foreign countries are subject to the 

 same restrictions as domestic articles of like character. In coopera- 

 tion with the Treasury Department a system of import inspection 

 has been devised by means of which importations of articles affected 

 by the insecticide act undergo proper control. As a further measure 

 in securing this result, the State Department, on request of the 

 Department of Agriculture, has prepared and distributed through the 

 Umted States consuls and consular agents, special invoices, declara- 

 tion sheets, and circulars containing the law and regulations, in order 

 that foreign exporters may become informed respecting the require- 

 ments of the law. 



The expenditure entailed in connection with the establishment of 

 inspection service at ports of entry is very great. For this reason it 

 has been regarded as uneconomical to attempt to install, at the 

 present time, separate forces and equipment for the import inspec- 

 tion of insecticides. This work is therefore being done oy using the 

 facilities already established at the principal ports of entry in con- 

 nection with the work of enforcing the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. 



