212. Misbranding of Pratt's Hog Powder.    U. S. v. Forty-six 3-Pound Packages
and Thirty-four 7-Pound Packages of Pratt's Hog Powder.   Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 1364.    Sample No. 78453^D.)
The labeling of this product bore false and misleading representations regard-
ing its efficacy in the conditions indicated below.
On or about January 20, 1940, the United States attorney for the Western
District of Virginia filed a libel against the above-named quantities of Pratt's
Hog Powder at Harrisonburg, Va., consigned by the Pratt Food Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on
or about November 1, 1939, from Philadelphia, Pa.; and charging that it was
misbranded.
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of dried sodium sulfate
(dried Glauber's salt, approximately 62 percent), bone meal, charcoal (approxi-
mately 10 percent), sulfur (approximately 9.5 percent), small proportions of
American wormseed, a trace of quassia, iron sulfate (approximately 2.3 per-
cent), and small amounts of copper, manganese, and iodine compounds. In
addition, the product in the 3-pound packages contained traces (less than 0.001
percent each) of nickel and cobalt compounds.
Misbranding was alleged in that the package bore representations that the
article should be used in the treatment of worms twice a month by forced
feeding and that it would help expel many large roundworms, which representa-
tions were false and misleading in that the article would not be efficacious for?/
such purposes.                                                                                                                         (
^On March 25, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.