5909. Desarin tablets.    (F.D.O. No. 40575.    S. Nos. 72-987/8 M.)
QUANTITY :   128  100-tablet btls. and 26   100-tablet btls. at Salt Lake City, Utah.
SHIPPED: 12-31-56 and 5-29-57, from St. Louis, Mo., by Victor M. Hermelin 
&Co.
LABEL IN PART: (128-tablet lot) "Desarin * * * Estrogenic Substance * * * 
Each tablet contains .625 mg. of estrogens in their naturally occurring water- 
soluble conjugated form * * * Control No. 11-66"; or (26-tablet lot) "Each 
tablet contains 1.25 mg. of estrogens in their naturally occurring water-soluble 
conjugated form * * * Control No. 5-66."
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION : Analysis showed that the 128-tablet lot of the article 
contained 0.29 mg. of sodium estrone sulfate per tablet; and the 26-tablet lot 
of the article contained .91 mg. of sodium estrone sulfate per tablet.
?See also No. 5907. 
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LIBELED :   9-13-57, Dist. Utah.
CHARGE: 501(C)-when shipped, the strength of the article differed from that 
which it purported and was represented to possess; and 502(a)-the label 
statements "Each tablet contains .625 mg. [or 1.25 mg.] of estrogens in their 
naturally occurring water-soluble conjugated form" were false and misleading.
DISPOSITION:    12-27-57.  Default-destruction.