2404. Misbranding:   of   Million   Dollar   Tonic.     TT.   S.   v.   212   Bottles    *     *    *.
(F. D. C. No. 24198.   Sample No. 14105-K.)
LIBEL FILED :    January 5,1948, Northern District of Illinois.
AIXEGED SHIPMENT :    On or about November 25, 1947, from Richmond, Ind., by
the M. L. Carpenter Medicine Co. of Dublin, Ind.
PRODUCT:   212 bottles of Million Dollar Tonic at Chicago, 111.    Examination
showed that the product was an aqueous solution of extracts of plant drugs, .
including aloe, preserved with a small proportion of a salicylate.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Misbranding, Section 502 (a), the label statements
"Tonic * * * If taken as an intestinal* tonic" were false and misleading
as applied to a product which was not capable of exerting a tonic effect upon
the human body or of acting as a tonic to the intestines.
Further misbranding, Section 502 (f) (2), the article was essentially a
laxative and its labeling failed to bear a warning to the effect that it should
not be taken by persons suffering from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or
other symptom of appendicitis, and that frequent or continued use of the
article or use of the article in accordance with the directions on the label
may result in dependence upon laxatives to move the bowels.
DISPOSITION :   May 27,1948.  Default decree of condemnation and destruction.