4918. Adulteration and misbjt'Hja.diag; o? ?cW aeetylo salicylic.    IT. S.    s    *    *
v. 50 JPacltag-es of Acid Aeetylo Salicylic. Default decree of con??
demnation, foi-feitwi-e, and de#truotl<m. (F. & D. No. 7016. I. S. No.?
11004-1.    S. No. C-379.)
On November 13, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 50 one-pound packages of acid aeetylo salicylic, remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages at Meridian, Hiss., alleging that the?
article had been shipped on or about October 22, 3915, by the Bagby-Howe Co.,?
Louisville, Ky., and transported from the State of Kentucky into the State of?
Mississippi, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled: " One pound Acid Aeetylo Salicylic?
Chemische Fabrik Vorm Bohenzoller Breslau."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the?
strength and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under which?
it had been and was intended to be sold.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the packages in which the article?
was contained bore a statement that it was acid aeetylo salicylic, which said?
statement was false and misleading in that the substance was not, in truth and?
in fact, acid aeetylo salicylic, but was composed chiefly of milk sugar, ace-?
tanilid, salicylc acid, potassium bitartrate, and contained practically no acid?
aeetylo salicylc. Misbranding was alleged for the .further reason that the?
article was in imitation of and offered for sale under the name of another and?
different drug, to wit, acid aeetylo salicylic. Misbranding was alleged for the?
further reason that the article contained a certain drug, to wit, acetanilid,?
and the package in which it was packed did not bear thereon a statement?
showing on the label thereon the quantity or proportion of acetanilid therein?
contained.
On March 15, 1916, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. A. PEAKSOKT, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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