16583. Misbranding-   of   Schieftelin   cold   and   grippe   tablets.    TJ.   S.   v.   20 
Paclta&es of Schieiieliu Cold & Grippe Tablets.     Default decree of
condemnation, lori'eittire, and destruction,     (F. & D. No. 23551.     I. S. 
No. 03732.    S. No, 1727.)
On March 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, 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 20 packages of Sehieffelin cold and grippe tablets at 
Newark, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped by Sehieffelin & 
Go., New York, N. Y., on or about January 9, 1929, and transported from the 
State of New York into the State of New Jersey, and charging misbranding 
in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
i,Analysis of the sample of the article by this department showed that the 
ablets contained aeetanilide, cinchona alkaloids, capsicum, camphor, aloha, 
ind extracts of plant drugs including a laxative drug.
< It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbraiideS in that the 
following statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the said 
irticle, (carton) "Grippe tablets !| * * Relieve Catarrhal Discomforts 
I * * for tne Tenef 0f * * * Acute Catarrh of the Nose, Throat and 
3ronehial Tubes," were false and fraudulent in that the article contained no 
Ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects 
laimed.
;Qu July 15, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
? condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
hat the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. 
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ARTHUR, M. HYD-E, Secretary of AgricuUurr.