Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — MANY IMPURE DRUGS SOLD. [ARTICLE]

MANY IMPURE DRUGS SOLD.

Chicago Association Approves War oo Adulterated Products. Adulterated drugs for five years have been sold to retail druggists in unlimited quantities, according to a report by Chas. H. Avery, president of the Chicago Retail Druggists’ Association, and Thomas V. Wooten, secretary of the national association, to United-States Commissioner Mason. Of 40,000 druggists in the United States, it is said 8,000 are known to have bought and sold impure drugs. Disclosures were made following an investigation of charges that a combine of wholesale dealers was trying to “put the mail-order drug houses out of business.” The report asserts: “We came away burdened with humiliation that such a condition of affairs could be possible in a city where so many competent pharmacists are employed in dispensing medicine, because the fraudulent character of the article dispensed could have been proved by the simplest test. “It is our desire publicly to commend the investigation that is being made of the frauds to which druggists have fallen victims, because these investigations cannot result otherwise than advantageously to honest pharmacists.”