1623. Adulteration and misbranding of absorbent cotton.    U. S. v. 94 Cartons of
Absorbent Cotton. Default decree providing for destruction of tbe
product or its delivery to a charitable institution. (F. D. C. No. 15460.
Sample No. 18930-H.)
LIBEL FILED :   March 5, 1945, District of Minnesota.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about January 12,1945, by the American White Cross
Laboratories, Inc., Cape Girardeau, Mo.
PRODUCT: 94 1-pound cartons of absorbent cotton at Minneapolis, Minn. Ex-
amination showed that the product was not sterile but was contaminated with
living micro-organisms.
LABEL, IN PABT :    "U. S. P.   Physicians and Surgeons Absorbent Cotton."
NATURE OF CHARGE:   Adulteration, Section 501 (b), the article purported to be
and was represented as a drug the name of which is recognized in the United
States Pharmacopoeia, an official compendium, but its quality and purity fell
below the official standard in that it was not sterile.
Misbranding, Section 502 (a), the statements on the cartons, "U. S. P.
Physicians and Surgeons Absorbent Cotton Sterilized after Packaging
* * * Surgical Quality Hospital Quality * * * Manufactured and
packed under * * * sanitary conditions. Sterilized after packaging," were
false and misleading as applied to the article, which was not sterile.
DISPOSITION: May 15, 1945. No claimant having appeared, judgment was en-
tered ordering that the product be destroyed or delivered to a charitable insti-
tution.