221. Misbranding of Healo Salve.    U. S. v. 118 Retail Packages of Healo Salve.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 1799. Sample
No. 10793-E.)
The labeling of this product hore false and misleading representations re-
garding its efficacy in conditions indicated hereinafter. The net weight also
was less than declared.
On April 12, 1940, the United States attorney for the Southern District of
New York filed a libel against 118 retail packages of Healo Salve at New
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce
on or about February 8, 1940, from Springfield, Mass., by the Ericka Co.; and
charging that it was misbranded. It was labeled in part: "The Magic Salve
Healo   *    *    *   Net Weight 1? oz. when packed."
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of petrolatum and
volatile pils including oil of peppermint, thymol, camphor, and eucalyptol.
Misbranding was alleged in that representations in the labeling of the article
regarding its efficacy in the treatment of headache, neuralgia, catarrh, toothache,
congested lungs, pneumonia, rheumatic pains, stiff joints, swellings, asthma,
hacking cough, sores, piles, hay fever, and eczema, were false and misleading
since the article was not efficacious for the purposes,so recommended. It was
alleged to be misbranded further in that the representation in the labeling that
the tins contained 1? ounces was false and misleading since it was incorrect,
and in that it did not bear an aecurate statement of the quantity of the
contents.
On May 2,1940, no claimant haying appeared, judgment of condemnation was?\
entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.