16593.   Misbranaing of Kidder's cold and gx-ippe tablets.     XI. S. -v. 29 Boxes- 
of Kidder's Cold and Grlui?e Tablets.    Defattlt decree of eondenwl 
nation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (J?.   &  D    No.   23431.     I.   S.  No.S 
03648.    S. No. 1563.) 
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On February 20, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of New Jer- 
sey, 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 coridem*' 
nation of 29 boxes of Kidder's cold and grippe tablets, remaining in the original! 
unbroken packages at Newark, N. J., alleging that the article had been shippedj 
by Samuel Kidder & Co., Boston, Mass., on or about December 17, 1928, an<|| 
transported from the State of Massachusetts into the State of New Jersey,^ 
and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended 
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that the tablets! 
contained acetphenetidin, salol, cafCein, and citric acid. 
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It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that it coa*j 
tained, among other ingredients, a certain quantity of phenacetin, a derivative 
of acetanilide, and the label of the article failed to bear a statement that! 
phenacetin is a derivative of acetanilide and failed to bear a statement olHhil 
quantity or proportion of phenacetin contained in the article.    Misbranding 
was alleged for the further reason that the following statements regarding^ 
the curative and therapeutic effects of the article,   (carton)   " Grippe Tablets 
*    *    *   For best results use promptly," were false and fraudulent in that thg 
article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of prof 
ducing the effects claimed.
On July 15, 1929, 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.
A&THUB M, HYDE> Secretary of Agriculture.