25085. Misbranding of Cox-Cis.     IT. S. v. Jack Amram and George Klinefelter,
copartners, trading as the Klolster Laboratories.    Pleas of nolo con- 
tendere.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 33944.    Sample nos. 55556-A, 57275-A.)
Unwarranted curative and therapeutic claims were made for this article.
On April 10,1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Penn- 
sylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Jack Amram and George Klinefelter, 
copartners, trading as the Kloister Laboratories, Ephrata, Pa., alleging ship- 
ments by said defendants in violation of the Food and Drugs Act on August 
12 and August 14, 1933, from Ephrata, Pa., to two places in other States, of 
quantities of Cox-Cis which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
(Carton) "Cox-Cis Patent Pending. The Scientific Poultry Remedy, * * * 
Kloister Laboratories Ephrata, Pennsylvania U. S. A."
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of calcium carbonate 
and betanaphthol.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the cartons in which it 
was shipped and a circular enclosed in the packages in which the cartons 
were wrapped bore and contained false and fraudulent statements that the 
article was effective, among other things, as a treatment, remedy, and cure 
for diseases of poultry; effective as a preventive, treatment, remedy, and cure 
for coccidiosis (bloody diarrhea) and many other intestinal diseases; effective 
as an excellent corrective for coccidiosis; effective as an aid in the treatment of 
bacillary white diarrhea and all forms of intestinal intoxication and infection; 
and effective to insure better egg production, to keep the intestinal tract clear, 
and to keep chickens healthy.
On October 18, 1935, pleas of nolo contendere were entered and a fine of $25 
was imposed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.