15809. Adulteration and misbranding of sodium salicylate tablets. IT. S.?
v. 49,500 Sodium Salicylate Tablets. Consent decree of condem??
nation and forfeiture.     Product released under bond.     (P. & D. No.
22414.    I. S. No. 23958-x.    S. No. 508.)
On or about February 3, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of?
Indiana, 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 coritit^mnation of 49,500 sodium salicylate tablets, remaining in the original?
unbroken ^packages at Muncie, Ind., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by the Shores-Mueller Co., from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on, or about January 10,?
1928, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of Indiana, and?
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Analysis by this department of a sample of the article showed that the tablets?
contained an average of 3.7 grains of sodium salicylate each.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that an analysis?
thereof showed said tablets to contain an average of 3.7 grains of sodium?
salicylate, and the strength thereof fell below the professed standard under?
which it was sold.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements on the label,?
 " Sodium Salicylate   *    *    *    5 grains " and " Each Tablet Represents Sodium?
Salicylate 5 gr.," were false and misleading.
On February 18, 1928, the Shores-Mueller Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, claimant,?
having admitted the allegations of the- libel and having consented to the entry?
of a decree, judgment was entered finding the product subject to condemnation?
and forfeiture, and it was ordered by the court that the said product be released?
to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution?
of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that they be remanufactured?
to bring them up to the declared strength.
AKTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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