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Show Drug Frauds Put Over "Cocaine" Had No Kickj j p Twas Only Rock Candy (23y GOJDFKE1' MATTHEWS) The work of a federal food and drug inspector, is at all times interesting, inter-esting, sometimes amusing, and always al-ways a'bsorbipg, says A. S. Daggett, formerly federal food and drug inspector in-spector of the Pacific coast, but now chief director of tho inspection service serv-ice of the National Canncrs association. associa-tion. Utah branch. - The top section op a. series of good looking book ca3es in Mr. Daggett's office is full of small bottles, accurately accu-rately labeled, containing many or tho counterfeits for real food and drugs which Mr. Daggett discovered during his tenure of- the federal appointment ap-pointment ho has recently relinquished. relin-quished. Bogus Corfee. "Most of tho counterfeits we discovered dis-covered during my time wcro positively posi-tively harmless and wore meant to reduce tho cost of the product on tho market." said Mr. Daggett. "Among the commonest of theso and sometimes some-times tho hardest to discover wero substitutes for coffee in the form of peas and beans, and grains of all kinds. Somo of tho culprits went to tho great trouble of pouring macaroni Into molds that made It look liko a bean, then they wero colored with some harmloss liquid to represent the coffee bean and used to adulterate quantities of the pure material. "Another common method of coffee cof-fee adulteration. was tho use of exhausted ex-hausted coffee grounds taken from restaurants, dried out and poured into sacks of tho real stuff', said Mr.! Daggett, who thereupon produced" i what he considers to be his "groat j find" in tho shape of a perfectly leg!-' ' timatc looking buttle "which was one. of 500 seized in Denver!' Colo. irunforous .Fraud. "To the--miiitcst detail this bottle j and its. "contents 'is one of tHe most harmless and humorous frauds 1 have I over known. Tho bottle is tho exact J sfzo and color. The seal is correct to the letter. The label is accurate. It purports to be a bottle containing one, ouncei of cocaine. On tho circular edge of tho seal appears the words 'Baldwin and Weeks, ' and a monogram, mono-gram, W- On the label is the legend B. and W., Montreal. Cocainc-Hydrochloride. Cocainc-Hydrochloride. Largest crystals.! Highest Purity. Medicinal.' Then another separate label bearing the words 'Guaranteed by Baldwin and! Weeks under the Federal Food and Drug Act, June 30, 190G.'" , Fivo hundred one-ounco bottles of( this stuff was, sold by a man to druggists drug-gists in Denver, Colo., who had a I large clientele among drug fields, andj the whole story was spilled to the po-1 lico of that city by ono of the flcnd3 ' who complained that he had bought somo cocaine at a certain drug store and that tho stuff "had no kick to it" Hock Candy. The bottlo, contains nothing moro harmful than rock candy crystals, says Mr. Daggott. who said that the bottles were sold by tho "crook" to tho Oruggists at. a dollar and a quar- tor each, and" w;ere in turn sold by them to the fiends for five dollars a' ! bottle. ' .i i oo- l i |