A SALE OF IODINE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 6

A SALE OF IODINE

-, . _: .* !_ ALLEGED BREACH OP PURE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. By Telegraph-HBeeiar Correspondent. Masterton, February 27. A somewhat unusual case was heard before Mr. S. L. Free, S.M.,'n.t the Magis. trate's Court to-day, when Edward Stohr, chemist, of Masterton, was charged with committing a. breach of iho Pure Food and Drugs Act by selling adulterated iodine. ' Mr. R. R. Burridge appeared for tho Crown, and Mr, W. Noble for defendant. Mr. Burridge said that on November 13. 1010, the District Health Inspector (Mr. ,T. Cairns) had purchased from defendant one shilling's worth of tincture of iodine. The bottle had been sealed and forwarded, together with three other samples of the same drug obtained elsewhere, to the Public. Health Department foranalysk The Dominion Analyst had since forwarded a certificate of'analysis, which' counsel handed to the Magistrate.^ James Cairns gave evidence. He said he had specially marked Stohr's sample for tho purpose of easy identification. Stohr had said. nothing' about the drug dicing adulterated; Witness |m<i purchatr ed tho sample in an unofficial capacity, and Stohr did not know that the drug was to be sent away .for analysis. For the defence, Mr. Noble contended that tho requirements of the Act bad not been complied with when the sample was taken. According to law, defendant should have been notified that the drug was being taken for analysis. This had net been done, and counsel submitted tnat fio. lire , sedition must therefore fail, '..'n-lgmcnt. was reserved.