2989. Adulteration  and misbranding of McCollum's Vitamin A and D Tablets.
U.  S. -v.  8 Bottles of MeCollum's Vitamin  A and D Tablets.     Default 
.  decree  of  condemnation  and destruction.      (F.   D.   C.  No.  5694.     Sample 
No. 61358-E.)
Examination of this product showed that it was more than 50 percent de- 
ficient in vitamin A and more than 40 percent deficient in vitamin D.
On September 16, 1941, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon 
filed a libel against 8 bottles, each containing 60 tablets, of the above-named 
product at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about July 12 and 25, 1941, by McCollum Laboratories from Hollywood, Calif.; 
and charging that it was adulterated and misbranded. *
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that valuable constituents, namely, 
vitamins A and D, had been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted there- 
from. It was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on the label, 
"Each tablet contains 3000 International Units of Vitamin A * * *' and 
300 International Units of Vitamin D," was false and misleading.
It was also alleged to be adulterated and misbranded under the provisions of 
the law applicable to drugs, as reported in D. D. N. J. No. 569.
On December 21, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.