2442. Misbranding of Early Bird Anthelmintic and Early Bird Improved.   U. S v.
Hector Huard   (Hoard Laboratories).     Plea of nolo  contendere.    Fine,
$200.   (F. D. C. No. 23256.   Sample Nos. 57171-H, 74014-H.)
INFORMATION FILED : November 25, 1947, District of Connecticut, against Hector
Huard, trading as Huard Laboratories, Norwich, Conn.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about September 16,1946, and February 15,1947, from
the State of Connecticut into the States of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
PRODUCT : Analyses disclosed that the Early Bird Anthelmintic was a mixture
of a yellowish oil, atop a thin green aqueous sludge, containing, among other
ingredients, castor oil, thymol, arecoline, and senna; and that the Early Bird
Improved was a greenish oil mixed with a small amount of a semiliquid in- -
soluble in the oil, with indications of the presence of oleoresin, male fern,
arecoline, thymol, santonin, podophyllin, senna, and castor oil.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements on the
labels of the products, in a circular entitled "Stepping Ahead in Worm
Therapy," which was shipped with the products, and in a circular entitled "Sug-
gestions for Worming Your Dog," which was enclosed with the Early Bird
Anthelmintic, were false and misleading. These statements represented and
suggested that the articles would be effective in the removal of all species of
worms infesting dogs, whereas the articles would not be effective for such
purposes.
DISPOSITION : January 26, 1948. A plea of nolo contendere having been entered,
the court imposed a fine of $100 on each of the two counts of the information.