14534. Misbranding of Arium tablets. U. S. v. 69 Dozen Boxes of Arium 
Tablets. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture and de- 
struction.    (F. & D. No. 2.1121.    I. S. No. 5875-x.    S. No. B-5736.)
On June 12, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 69 boxes of Arium tablets, at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Associated Radium Chemists, Inc., 
from New York, N. Y., on or about March 31, 1926, and transported from the 
State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging misbranding 
in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The article bore certain 
statements on the box label, and in the circular and booklet contained in the 
box, as set out in Notice of Judgment No. 14533, which statements On the said 
box, circular and booklet are incorporated herein. The circular accompanying 
the article in the instant case bore the further statements: " Important- 
Arium must not be regarded as a drug, stimulant or medicine for temporary 
relief, but as a Progressive Treatment of astonishing therapeutic value. It&> 
action is that of a gentle internal health-building radium massage, which day 
by day strengthens every organ, gland, fiber.and tissue of your body in a 
natural manner. A multitude of ailments, pains and disorders, signs of old 
age, Sexual Weakness and countless alarming symptoms which resisted all 
other forms of treatment have yielded to its almost unbelievable power. Each 
succeeding box of Arium should be of greater benefit than the previous one- 
for it serves to increase the radioactivity of your body that much more. Take 
it regularly without interruption until the completely satisfactory and suc- 
cessful results you desire, are obtained.   Do not miss a single dose."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of a sample of the 
article showed that it was composed mainly of lithium carbonate, starch and 
talc, with 8.58 millimicrograms of radium to each tablet.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the said article
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were false and fraudulent, since it contained no ingredient or combination of 
ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed. 
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On August 5, 1926, 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. .-... 
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.