170. Adulteration and misbranding of Anterior Pituitary Sex Hormone.     U.  S.
v. 20 Vials of Anterior Pituitary Sex Hormone Solution.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 1471.    Sample No. 70132-D.)
The potency of this product was found to be less than that declared in its
labeling.
On February 8, 1940, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania filed a libel against 20 vials of the above-named product at Phila-
delphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce
on or about August 11, 1939, by the Difco Laboratories, Inc., from Detroit,
Mich.; and charging that it was adulterated and misbranded.
Adulteration was alleged in that the strength of the article differed from
that which it purported or was represented to possess in that it was represented
to contain 100 rat units per cc.; whereas it did not contain 100 rat units per
cc. but did contain a smaller amount.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that representations in the labeling that
it consisted of anterior pituitary sex hormone solution 100 rat units per cc.
was false and misleading since it contained less than 100 rat units per cc.
On March 26, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.