2040. Misbranding:   of   Chicle   D-W   Tablets   and   ALkazing.    U.   S.   v.   Smithson
Products Co.    Plea of guilty.   Fine, $200 and costs.    (F. D. C. No. 17864.
Sample Nos. 22161-H, 22162-H.)
INFORMATION FILED: May 7, 1946, Southern District of Illinois, against the
Smithson Products Co., a partnership, Peoria, 111.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : From the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri. The
products were shipped on or about March 5 and May 10, 1945, and a number
of accompanying circulars entitled, "Helps for Making More Money from Live-
stock and Poultry," were shipped within the period from the latter part of
1944 to on or about May 21,1945.
PRODUCT: Examination showed that the Chick D-W Tablets consisted of green
compressed tablets containing, chiefly, copper sulfate, potassium alum, and
small amounts of boric acid, siliceous excipient, and green color; and that
the Alkazing consisted of a red powder containing, chiefly, sodium carbonate
and sodium hydroxide, and small amounts of copper carbonate, cresol, and
red color, with anise flavor and sweetened with saccharin.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Chick
D-W Tablets, misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain
statements on the label of the article, and certain statements and a picture of
a dragon breathing fire, appearing in the circulars were false and misleading
since they represented and suggested that the article would be effective as an
intestinal'astringent for poultry; that when used as directed the article would
be effective in the prevention and treatment of bowel troubles of chicks and
adult fowls; that it would be effective to guard against contagions; that it
would help to stop the spread of certain intestinal contagions, such as coc-
cidiosis, fowl cholera, and fowl typhoid; that it would be effective against
intestinal disturbances, such as diarrhea and dysentery and pasting up be-
hind in chicks; that it would be effective until all danger signs of diarrhea
and dysentery were gone; that it would be effective to help save chicks; that
it would be effective against the dread bacillary white diarrhea (8. pullorum
infection), which may be spread through contaminated drinking water; that
it would be effective to ward off certain intestinal diseases, and to help stop
the spread of certain intestinal infections; that it would be effective to stop
the spread of dysentery and diarrhea through drinking water, and to give
relief from the weakening effects of dysentery and diarrhea; and that it
would be effective as a medication until all signs of diarrhea and dysentery
disappeared. The article would not be effective for the purposes represented.
Alkazing, misbranding, Section 502 (a), the pictures of scrawny and runty
pigs and certain statements appearing in the circulars were false and mis^
leading since they represented and suggested that the article would be effec-
tive as a prevention and treatment against intestinal disturbances and in-
testinal disorders of pigs and hogs, such as necro and necrotic enteritis, para-
typhoid, and caseous enteritis and infectious necrotic enteritis; that it would
be effective to clean sows inside &nd out, and to clean the intestinal tract of
pigs and hogs; that it would be cheap insurance against probable further set-
backs and losses in time, feed, and death of pigs and. hogs; that it would be
effective in making money-makers out of emaciated, fever-drawn, half-starved,
runty looking pigs; that it would be effective in making market hogs out of
runts; that it would be effective to cause improvement in pigs that looked
like they were not doing well; that it would make profitable porkers out of
runty pigs; and that it would put poor doers into condition. The article would
not be effective for the purposes represented.
DISPOSITION : June 3, 1946. A plea of guilty having been entered, the defend-
ant was fined $100 on each of the 2 counts of the information, plus costs.