1517. Adulteration and misbranding: of vitamin K. IT. S. v. 364 Cartons of Vitamin
K (and 3 other seizure actions against vitamin K). Default decrees of
condemnation. Portion of product ordered delivered to a charitable
organization; remainder ordered destroyed. (F. D. C. Nos. 14888, 14889,
14906,  15052.    Sample Nos. 84131-F, 90802-F,   90803-F, 90817-F, 99125-F.)   (
Between January 3 and 12, 1945, the United States attorneys for the Eastern
District of Missouri, the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, and the North-
cartons at Columbus, Ohio, 1,564 cartons at Toledo, Ohio, and 728 cartons at San
Francisco, Calif., each carton containing 6 ampuls of vitamin K. It was alleged
that the article had been shipped on or about November 8,1944, from Woodworth,
Wis., by the U. S. Standard Products Co. The article was labeled in part:
(Ampul) "1 cc size Ampul Vitamin K Water Soluble (Synthetic) Ampullae
Menadioni, 3.8 mg. (Eqiv. 2 mg. Menadione)."
The article was^illeged to be adulterated in.that it purported to be and was
represented as menadione sodium bisulfite injection, a drug the name of which
is recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, an official compendium, but
its strength differed from the official standard, which requires that menadione
sodium bisulfite injection shall contain an amount of menadione equivalent to
not less than 47 percent of the labeled amount of menadione sodium bisulfite,
whereas (he article contained menadione in amounts varying from 38 percent
to 44 percent of the labeled amount.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on its label,
"1 cc size Ampul * * * Ampullae Menadioni * * * 3.8 mg. (Equiv.
2 Mg. Menadione)," was false and misleading since the article contained, in each
1-cc. ampul, menadione sodium bisulfite in amounts varying from 2.73 milligrams
to 3.15 milligrams, or menadione in amounts varying from 1.45 milligrams to
1.66 milligrams.
Between February 10 and March 31, 1945, no claimant having appeared,
judgments of condemnation were entered and a portion of the product was ordered
delivered to a charitable organization and the remainder was ordered destroyed.