7588. Misbranding or Jjang Gennine. U. S. * * * v. The linns' Germine 
Co., si Corporation. Plea of utility. Fine, foO. (F. & D. No. 8813. 
I.  S.  No.  11073-m )
On August 24, 3918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
Distiict Court of the United States for said district an information against 
The Dung Germine Co., a corporation, Jackson, Mich., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about March 
19, 1917, from the State of Michigan into the State of Minnesota, of a quantity 
of an article, labeled in part "Lung Germine," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
depaitment showed that it consisted essentially of 13.8 per cent of sulphuric 
aci'3, 15.5 per cent by volume of alcohol, a small amount of iron sulphate, aro- 
matics, and water.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was mis-' 
branded for the reason that certain statements, appearing on the labels of the 
bottles containing, and on the cartons enclosing the article, falsely and fraudu- 
lently represented it as effective, among other things, to destroy the germs of 
diseases in the lungs, and as a treatment for lung and bronchial diseases in in- 
cipient stages, and as a remedy for lung and bronchial diseases in incipient 
stages, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.   It was alleged in substance that
the article was misbranded for the further reason that certain statements, 
included in the booklet accompanying the article, falsely and fraudulently 
represented it as a treatment for lung and bronchial affections and effective as a 
remedy for any form of lung or bronchial trouble that has not passed the 
incipient stage, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On March 16, 1920, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.