3090. Adulteration and misbranding of Sterilastic Dressing Bandage.   U. S. v.
168 Packages   *    *    *.    (F. D. C. No. 28675.   Sample No. 30240-K.)
LIBEL FILED :    January 5,1950, District of Massachusetts.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about November 25, 1949, from Los Angeles, Calif.
This was a return shipment.
PRODUCT:   168 packages of Sterilastic Dressing Bandage at Boston, Mass.
LABEL, IN PART: "Size 2" x 60" * * * Sterilastic Dressing Bandage
*   *   *   Manufactured Only By Surgical Dressings, Inc., Boston, Mass."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 501 (c), the purity and quality of
the article fell below that which it purported and was represented to possess;.
Misbranding, Section 502  (a), the label statements "Sterilastic First AidW
Bandage   *    *    *   Surgical   Dressing   *    *    *   The  gauze  supplied  with
Sterilastic may be used in an emergency" were false and misleading as applied
to an article which was not sterile.
DISPOSITION : February 27, 1950. Default decree of condemnation and destruc-
tion.