244. Adulteration and misbranding of gauze bandage.    U. S. v. 9 Dozen Packages
and 17 Dozen Packages of Gauze Bandage.    Default decree of condemns- ,
tlon and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 661.    Sample No. 70879-D.) 
This product had been shipped in interstate commerce, was in interstate
commerce at the time of examination, and was found to be contaminated with?^
viable micro-organisms at that time.
On September 30,1939, the United States attorney for the District of Montana?x
filed a libel against 26 dozen packages of gauze bandage at Billings, Mont.,
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about November 1, 1938, by the
Process Corporation from Chicago, 111.; and charging that it was adulterated
and  misbranded.   It  was  labeled  in  part:   "Pro-Co-Pax  Gauze  Bandage."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that its purity fell below the
professed standard and quality under which it was sold since it was not sterile
but was contaminated with aerobic and anaerobic, or facultative anaerobic,
spore-forming micro-organisms.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that the representations in the labeling
that it consisted of a nonravel bandage which had been scientifically prepared
for surgical use under sanitary manufacturing conditions, was false and mis-
leading since it was not sterile.
On December 15, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna-
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.