20897. Misbranding of White Cross liver medicine. IT. S. v. 90 Cartons of 
White Cross Ll-ver Medicine. Default decree of condemnation, 
forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 29811.    Sample no. 32678-A.)
Examination of the drug preparation, White, Cross liver medicine, disclosed 
that it contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of pro- 
ducing certain curative and therapeutic effects claimed on the box label, and 
in the circular shipped with the article.
On February 21, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 90 cartons of White Cross liver medicine, alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about September 2, 1932, by the American Drug Co., from 
Mobile, Ala., to Jacksonville, Fla., 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 it con- 
sisted essentially of senna leaves.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the fol- 
lowing statements regarding its curative and therapeutic effects, appearing on 
the box and carton labels and in the circular, were false and fraudulent: (Box) 
" Liver Medicine For * * * Biliousness, Indigestion, * * * and all 
Diseases of the Liver"; (circular) " Liver Medicine For * * * Bilious- 
ness, Indigestion * * * and all Diseases of the Liver * * * Liver 
Medicine * * * habitual constipation"; (carton) "Liver Medicine For 
*   *   *   Biliousness, Indigestion."
On April 21, 1933, 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.
R. G. TTTGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.