FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
NOTICES OF JUDGMENT UNDER THE FEDERAL FOOD,
DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT
[Given pursuant to section 705 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act]
4461-4480
DRUGS AND DEVICES
The cases reported herewith were instituted in the United States district
courts by the United States attorneys, acting upon reports submitted by the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and include, where indicated, the
results of investigations by the Department, prior to the institution of the pro-
ceedings. Published by direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare.
GEO. P. LABBICK, Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 29,1955.
CONTENTS
Page
Violative sales of prescription drugs 404
Drugs actionable because of failure .
to bear adequate directions or
warning statements 
406
Drugs for human use 
406
Drugs for veterinary use 
407
Drugs actionable because of devia-
tion from official or own stand-
ards 
408
Page
Drugs and devices actionable be-
cause of false and misleading
claims 
410
Drugs for human use 
410
Drugs for veterinary use 
414
Index 
415
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403
VIOLATIVE SALES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
4461. Misbranding of secobarbital sodium capsules.   U. S. v. Isadore M. Press
man.   Plea of guilty.   Defendant fined $500 and sentenced to 1 year in
jail; jail sentence suspended and defendant placed on probation for 1
year.    (F. D. C. No. 35570.    Sample No. 75183-L.)
INDICTMENT RETURNED:   March 29, 1954, District of Columbia, against Isadore
M. Pressman, a pharmacist for the Randolph Pharmacy, Washington, D. 0.
NATURE OF CHARGE : On or about February 2, 1954, while a number of secobar-
bital sodium capsules were being held for sale at the Randolph Pharmacy,
after shipment in interstate commerce, the defendant caused a number of the
capsules to be dispensed without a prescription from a practitioner licensed
by law to administer such drug. Such act of dispensing was contrary to Sec-
tion 503 (b) (1), and resulted in the dispensed drug being misbranded while
held for sale.
DISPOSITION:* June 11, 1954. The defendant having entered a plea of guilty,
the court fined him $500 and sentenced him to 1 year in jail, but suspended
the jail sentence and placed him on probation for 1 year.