8600. Adulteration and misbranding: of aspirin tablets. If. S. * * * v.?
14,000 Tablets * * * Aspirin. Default decree of condemna??
tion, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 9461. I. S. No. 11357-r.?
S.  No. C-1009.)
On November 20, 1918, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
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 14,000 tablets of a product purporting to be aspirin, consigned?
by the Verandah Chemical Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., October 27, 1918, remaining?
unsold in the original packages at Steubenville, Ohio, alleging that the article?
had been transported from the State of New York into the State of Ohio, and?
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.?
The article was labeled in part, "Acetylsalicylic Acid Tablets 5 Gr. Aspirin?
The Verandah Chemical Co., Brooklyn, N. Y."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that the article contained only a trace of acetylsalicylic acid or?
aspirin, with a considerable amount of free salicylic acid.
Adulteration of the article was alleged, in substance, in the libal for the?
reason that its strength and purity fell below the professed standard and?
quality under which it was sold.
It was alleged, in substance, that the article was misbranded in that certain?
statements on the labels of the retail packages containing the article purported?
that the article contained aspirin, which statements were false and misleading?
in that it contained little or no aspirin, and for the further reason that it was?
an imitation of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of,?
"Aspirin."
On April 18, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
S. R. A.—C
hem. Suppl. 103.