6593. Misbranding of Vitabond Tablets. U. S. v. 63 Cartons of Vitabond Tablets. 
Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 11881. 
Sample No. 51278-F.)
LIBEL FILED :   February 26, 194-1, District of Maine.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about October 21, 1943, by the Vitabond Vitamin 
Corporation, from New York, N. Y.
PRODUCT:   63 cartons, each containing 60 packages, of Vitabond Tablets at Port- 
land, Maine.
The article consisted of tablets packed 4 to a cellophane envelope, the cello- 
phane envelope being folded within a leaflet entitled "Vitabond A Vitamin 
Enriched Spread." Examination of the tablets indicated that they were com- 
posed essentially of common table salt, sodium bicarbonate, rennin, and a coal- 
tar color. Each tablet contained 167 USP units of Vitamin Bi and 500 micro- 
grams B2. In the labeling the article was represented to be used in conjunction 
with butter and milk to make a spread.
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the statements and designs 
which appeared in the labeling of the article and whi ch represented and sug- 
gested that use of the article as directed would result in a product which had 
the nutritional and other values of butter, and that the tablets would enrich 
the resulting spread with substantial quantities of vitamin A, vitamin Bi, 
vitamin D, vitamin B2, calcium, and phosporus, were false and misleading since 
the product made with the tablets did not have the same nutritional value as 
butter, but was in fact a product containing water in substantially greater pro- 
portion than that present in butter, with a correspondingly lower nutritional 
value; and the tablets did not contribute substantial quantities of vitamins or 
minerals to the spread; Section 403 (f) the common or usual name of each 
ingredient, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or dis- 
tributor, and a statement of the quantity of the contents, were not prominently 
placed on the label with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, 
statements, designs, or devices in the labeling) as to render them likely to be 
read by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase, since 
such- information appeared on the inside of the leaflet label, whereas it should 
have appeared on the principal display portion of the leaflet label; and, Section 
403 (j), the article purported to be a food for special dietary use by man by 
reason of its vitamin A, vitamin Bi, vitamin B2, vitamin D, calcium, and phos- 
phorus content, and its label failed to bear, as required by the regulations, a 
statement of the proportion of the minimum daily requirements of such vita- 
mins and minerals furnished by a specified quantity of the product customarily 
or usually consumed during a period of 1 day, or a quantity reasonably suitable 
for and practicable of consumption within such period.
DISPOSITION: March 9, 1944. No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.