9570. Misbranding of Dr. Blackman's Medicated Salt Brick. V. S. * * * v. 50 Cases of Blackman's Medicated Salt Brick. Product released under bond and case dismissed. (F. & D. No. 9227. I. S. No. 6634-r. S. No. C-951.) On August 13, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel, and on November 4„ 1918, an amended libel, for the seizure and condemnation of 50 cases of Black- man's Medicated Salt Brick, at Little Rock, Ark., consigned by the Blackman Stock Remedy Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., in part on May 9 and in part on May 22, 1918, alleging that the article had been shipped from Chattanooga, Tenn., and transported from the. State of Tennessee into the State of Arkansas, and charg- ing misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article was labeled in part: " Dr. Blackman's Medicated Salt Brick * * * Manu- factured by Blackman Stock Remedy Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. * * *;." "A. Worm Medicine Blood Purifier Kidney Regulator * * * For * * * Cattle * * * Hogs And Pigs * * * As A Preventive." Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- partment showed that it consisted chiefly of salt with small amounts of nux: vomica, sulphur, nitrate, and an iron compound. Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel, as amended, for the reason that the above-quoted statement that the product was meritori- ous as a preventive was false and fraudulent since the said article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the preventive effects claimed. On April 29, 1919, the Blackman Stock Remedy Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.r having entered an appearance as claimant for the property, it was ordered by the court that upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execu- tion of a good and sufficient bond, the product be released to said claimant and the case be dismissed, and it was further ordered by the court that the said product be relabeled to the satisfaction of this department. C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.