669. Misbranding of Special Formula Tablets.    U. S. v. 47,800 Special Formula
Tablets, Plain.   Default decree of condemnation and destruction.    (P. D. C.
No. 6301.   Sample Nos. 87220-E, 87221-E.)
This product consisted of tablets containing boric acid and an effervescent
mixture of soda and citric acid.   Its use might produce deleterious effects and its
label failed to bear adequate directions for use, adequate warnings, and the names
of the active ingredients.
On November 28, 1941, the United States attorney for the Southern District
of West "Virginia filed a libel against the above-named product at Charleston, W.
Va., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about
October 15, 1941, by the Arner Co., Inc., from Buffalo, N. T.; and charging that
it was misbranded.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that its label failed to bear (1)
adequate directions for use; (2) adequate warnings against use by children where
its use might be dangerous to health, and against unsafe dosage or duration of
administration, in such manner and form as are necessary for the protection of
users, since the labeling carried no warning that repeated daily administration
would cause systemic deleterious effects and injurious gastro-intestinal dis-
turbances ; and (3) the common or usual name of each/active ingredient.
On April 20,1942, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.