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Drugs  and  Food  Products. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
April,  1902. 
Ferri  et  quininae  citras  :  Eight  samples  examined ;  two  contained 
insufficient  quinine. 
Glycerin:  Twenty-nine  samples  examined  for  arsenic;  twenty 
were  found  to  contain  from  traces  to  0  002  in  25  grammes  of  sample. 
Limonis  succus :  Twelve  samples  analyzed ;  all  adulterated  or 
impure. 
Oil  of  lemon  :  Six  samples  analyzed  ;  five  contained  oil  of  turpen- 
tine. 
Olive  oil :  Fifty  samples  examined ;  thirteen  consisted  wholly  or 
in  part  of  cottonseed  oil. 
Potassium  bitartras  :  Of  twenty-one  samples,  two  were  adulterated 
with  cornstarch,  gypsum  and  acid  phosphate  of  lime. 
Sulphur  prsecipitatum  :  Of  fifteen  samples,  ten  contained  calcium 
sulphate. 
Tr.  Opii :  Of  thirty-nine  samples,  thirty-four  were  found  below 
the  standard. 
The  last,  of  course,  indicates  that  the  crude  opium  from  which 
the  tincture  was  made,  was  not  of  standard  strength. 
During  the  fifteen  years,  from  1883  to  1897,  tn-e  Massachusetts 
State  Board  of  Health  examined  a  large  number  of  samples  of  drugs 
with  the  following  results : 
Year. 
No.  of  Samples 
Analyzed. 
No.  Found 
Adulterated. 
Percentage. 
1883  •  • 
603 
246 
40-8 
1884 
682 
251 
36-8 
1885  . 
1,007 
436 
43'3 
1886 
888 
425 
47-8  ' 
1887 
550 
150 
27  3 
1888 
862 
228 
26*4 
1889 
600 
97 
162 
400 
75 
187 
424 
72 
17-0 
487 
175 
35"9 
i«93  • 
327 
99 
30*3 
1894  . 
487 
103 
33*5 
1895  . 
544 
332 
6ro 
1896 
565 
254 
50'3 
1897  . 
8,366 
3,303 
35'9 
