8374. Misbranding of Ca-Cc?Ba aiid Compound Extract of Cubebs with?
Copaiba. TJ? S. * * * v. One Gross Facfei.se of Ca-'Co-Ba and 4?
3D?Msen Jars of Compound Extract of Cubcbs witli Copaiba. Con??
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released on?
bond.     (F. & D. No. 10670.    I. S. Nos. 7148-r, 7149-r.     S. No. C-1313.)
On or about June 27, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis??
trict of Ohio, 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 one gross packages of drugs, labeled in part " Cu-Co-Ba * * *?
The Tarrant Co., * * * New York, U. S. A." and 3 dozen jars of drugs,?
labeled in part " Compound Extract of Cubebs with Copaiba * * * ? The?
Tarrant Co., New York," consigned by The Tarrant Co., New York, N. Y,, April?
19, 1919, remaining unsold at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had?
been transported from the State of New York into the-State of Ohio, and charg??
ing misbranding in violation of the Food, and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that each article consisted of a plastic mass containing oil?
of cubebs and copaiba.
Misbranding of the articles was alleged in substance in the libel for the rea??
son that their packages and labels bore and contained statements regarding?
the curative or therapeutic effect of said drugs, to wit, (Cu-Co-Ba) " * * *?
for gonorrhoea, gleet, whites, etc. * * * Cu-co-ba ' Tarrant' * * * Re??
duces excessive and annoying discharges. * * * in inflammations and irri??
tations of the bladder, kidneys, prostate/urethra, and vagina. Of special value?
in gleet, gonorrhoea, and Jeucorrhoea * * * successfully employed in the?
treatment of chronic bronchitis, inflammation of the bladder * ??*?? * prostatic?
abscess and gonorrhoea * * * successfully used in inflammatory conditions?
of the bladder and kidneys * * * leucorrhoea, vaginal gonorrhoea * * *?
Cu-co-ba * * * retards the growth of the gonococcus and other obnoxious?
micrococci, corrects and arrests foul discharges and promotes the healing of?
raw or denuded mucous surfaces. * * * In inflammations of vagina, blad??
der and kidneys * * * in irritation of prostate *' * * chronic catarrhal?
condition known as leucorrhcoa or whites * * * clap * * * in gleet,"?
(Compound Extract of Cubebs with Copaiba) "* * * in those disorders of?
the kidneys, bladder, prostate, vagina and urethra in which these drugs have?
proved their usefulness, * * * chronic catarrh with profuse secretion ?* * *?
cystitis * * * diseases of the mucous membranes * * * catarrh and?
irritation of the bladder * * * gonorrhoeal urethritis of both male and female?
* * * gonorrhoea of subacute or chronic type * * * subacute and chronic?
pyelitis * * ?* in inflammation of the bladder and urethra," which state??
ments were false and fraudulent in that said drugs contained no ingredient or?
combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed, and in?
that said products were insufficient of themselves for the successful treatment
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and cure of tlie ailments and diseases for which they were prescribed and rec??
ommended in the aforesaid statements,
On September 10, 1919, The Tarrant Co., claimant, having admitted the?
allegations of the libel and consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation?
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the property?
be released to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and?
the execution of a bond in the sum of $200, in conformity witli section 10 of?
the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.