26758. Misbranding of nitroglycerin tablets.    IT. S. v. 19 Bottles of Nitroglycerin
Tablets.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D.
no. 37810.    Sample nos. 72G63-B, 72664-B.)
These tablets contained nitroglycerin in amounts greater than those 
represented on the labels.
On June 11, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 19 bottles of nitro- 
glycerin tablets at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about April 21, April 23, and May 12, 1936, from 
Baltimore, Md., by the Standard Pharmaceutical Corporation, and that it was 
misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on the labels 
of a portion of the bottles, "Tablet Triturates Nitroglycerin 1/150 Grain", 
and the statement on the labels of the remaining portion of the bottles, "Tablet 
Triturates Nitroglycerin 1/200 Grain", were false and misleading, since the 
article in the bottles represented to contain 1/150 grain of nitroglycerin con- 
tained in fact more than said amount thereof, namely, 1/80 grain, and the 
article in the bottles represented to contain 1/200 grain of nitroglycerin con- 
tained in fact more than said amount thereof, namely, 1/120 grain.
On July 24, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.