1996. Adulteration and misbranding of Pratts Poultry Worm Powder and mis
branding of Pratts N-K Capsules. U. S. v. 66 Packages of Pratts JT-K
Capsules (and 2 other seizure actions against Pratts Poultry Worm
Powder and Pratts N??K. Capsules). Default decrees of condemnation
?and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 19979, 20481, 20482. Sample Nos. 4929-H,
?4932-H, 4933-H, 4935-H, 4936-H.
LIBELS FILED :   On or about June 3 and July 12, 1946, District of New Jersey.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about October 4, 1945, and January 17 and May 9,
1946, by the Pratt Food Co., from Philadelphia, Pa.
PRODUCT : 66 packages and 46 packages of Pratts N-K Capsules at Vineland and
Millville, N. J., respectively, and 4 cartons, each containing 10 packages, of the
capsules, together with 32 packages of Pratts Poultry Worm Powder, at Brook-
lawn, N. J. Analyses revealed that the Pratts N-K Capsules each consisted
essentially of nicotine between 2.38 percent and 2.54 percent, phenothiazine
between 1.90 percent and 2.89 percent, and a small amount of strychnine; and
that the Pratts Poultry Worm Powder consisted essentially of nicotine, 4 per-
cent, phenothiazine, 9.25 percent, and small amounts of copper sulfate and
strychnine.
NATURE OF CHARGE : Pratts Poultry Worm Powder, adulteration, Section 501
(c), the strength of the article differed from that which it purported and was
represented to possess, since it was represented to contain 12 percent of
phenothiazine, but contained less than that amount. Misbranding, Section
502 (a), certain label statements were false and misleading since they repre-
sented and suggested that the article would be effective for the removal of all
species of worms which infest poultry, and that it would be effective against
cecal worms in poultry, whereas it would not be effective for such purposes; and
the label statement. "Active Ingredients * * * Phenothiazine 12.00?,"
was false and misleading.
Pratts N-K Capsules, misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements on
the labels of the article and in accompanying labeling consisting of package
inserts entitled "Pratt's Split Action Capsules," a circular entitled "Why Feed
3 Pullets To Get One Egg," and a booklet entitled "The Poultry Health Guide"
were false and misleading since they represented and suggested that the article
would have special action in releasing the different ingredients at different times
in the intestinal tract for the elimination of the different species of worms that
infest poultry, and that the article would be effective in the treatment of cecal
worms (Heterakis gallvnae) and capillaria species of worms that infest the in-
testinal tract of poultry. The article did not possess the special action stated
and implied, and it would not be effective in the treatment of the conditions men-
tioned. Further misbranding, Section 502 (a), the label statement, "Improved
Formula Phenothiazine Added," appearing on the article at Vineland and
Brooklawn, N. J., was misleading in that it suggested that phenothiazine was
present in the article in a sufficient amount to be effective as an active ingredi-
ent for the removal of cecal worms which infest chickens and turkeys, whereas
phenothiazine was not present in the product in a sufficient amount to be effec-
tive as an active ingredient for such purposes.
DISPOSITION : June 28 and August 9, 1946. No claimant having appeared, judg-
ments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered destroyed.