850. Misbranding of Knox-It.   U. S. v. 20 Packages and 72 Packages of Knox-It.
Default  decree   of  condemnation  and  destruction.     (F.   D.   C.  No.   6825.
Sample No. 74195-E.)
On February 6,1942, the United States attorney for the District of New_ Jersey
filed a libel against 92 packages of Knox-It at Little Falls and Upper Montclair,
N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or
about January 16, 1942, by the Syracuse Pharmacal Co., Inc., from Syracuse,
Analysis of a sample of the article showed that it consisted essentially of plant
material including a cereal, iodoform, methenamine, sulfur, lime, small propor-
tions of a copper compound, and an iodide.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that statements in the labeling
which represented that it was an appropriate treatment for common disturbances
of the mammary system of cattle, or garget, which result in thick, bloody, stringy
milk and that it was a suitable preventive of garget were false and misleading
since it would not be efficacious for such purposes.
On July 7,1942, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.