2364. Adulteration and misbranding of Met-Estrin.    U. S. v. Metropolitan Lab
oratories, Inc., and Rudolph N. Price.   Pleas of guilty.   Fine, $500 against
defendants  jointly.     (P. D.  C.  No.  17856.     Sample  Nos.   6027-H,   6028-H,
16540-H.)
INFORMATION FILED :    January 21, 1948, Southern District of New York, against
the Metropolitan Laboratories, Inc., New York, N. Y., and Rudolph N. Price,
president of the corporation.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   Between the approximate dates of January 23 and April 10,
1945, from the State of New York into the States of New Jersey and Illinois.
LABEL, IN PAST:    "Metro   Met-Estrin (Estrogenic Substance)."
NATURE OF CHARGE:   Adulteration, Section 501 (d), an oil solution of estradiol
with insignificant amounts of estrone or other ketosteroids had been substi-
tuted in whole or in part for a mixture of natural estrogens derived from
pregnancy urine, which the article purported and was represented to be.
Misbranding, Section 502 (e) (2), the article was not designated solely
by a name recognized in an official compendium and was fabricated from two
or more ingredients, and its label failed to bear the common or usual name
of each active ingredient, since the label designation "Estrogenic Substance"
is not the specific name of any particular substance but is a. generic name
for a class of substances.
DISPOSITION: April 6, 1948. Pleas of guilty having been entered, the court
imposed a fine of $500 against the defendants jointly.