17638. Misbranding of Ponca Compound. U. S. v. 17 Packages of Ponca. 
Compound. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and!, 
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 24766.    I. S. No. 027009.    S. No. 3123.)
Examination of samples of a drug product labeled as Ponca Compound having 
shown that the labels bore claims of curative and therapeutic effects that the 
article was incapable of producing, the Secretary of Agriculture reported to the 
United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the presence 
of a quantity of the product at Pittsburgh, from the following described 
interstate shipment.
On May 17, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 17 packages of Ponca Compound, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Mellier Drug Co., from St. Louis, Mo., on or about May 24, 1930 (29),. 
and had been transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, 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 sulphur, sodium bicarbonate, and extracts of plant drugs.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the 
following statements borne on the tin container, regarding the curative and 
therapeutic effects of the said article, were false and fraudulent: " Uterine- 
alterative for Leucorrhoea, Dysmenorrhoea, Amenorrhoea, Metritis, Endo- 
Metritis, Menorrhagia, Metrorrhagia, Irregular Menstruation, Subinvolution, 
Painful Pregnancy."
On July 10, 1930, 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.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.