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.