6556. Mineralpar tablets.    (F.D.C. No. 45463.    S. No. 50-209 R.)
QUANTITY:    1 unlabeled ctn. containing 10,000 tablets, and 15 labeled boxes
each containing 125 tablets, at Denver, Colo., in possession of A. W. Blaine;
and 50 lbs. of bulk raw humus and 20,000 unlabeled tablets, at Denver, Colo.,
in possession of Larre Laboratories, Inc.
SHIPPED : The article "Mineralpar" was prepared by the dealer, A. W. Blaine, 
from bulk humus which he personally dug in July 1958, from the soil, on land 
located at Panaca, Lincoln County, Nev. The material was then transported 
by the dealer to Denver, Colo., where it was pulverized. The pulverized mate- 
rial was delivered by the dealer to Larre Laboratories, Inc., where it was 
formed into tablets. A number of the tablets were carried by the dealer in 
bulk drums to his residence in Denver, Colo., where he placed the tablets in 
boxes.
LABEL IN PART: (BOX) "Approximately 7 Grain Each * * * MINERALPAR 
Made By Nature Contains a natural Mineral taken from a natural concen- 
trated mineral deposit. Analysis shows it to be a complex association of 
Humas matter combined with silicates of Calcium, Potassium, Sodium and 
Alumina, probably resulting from the decomposition of organic substances 
such as Chlorophyl and other vegetable compounds. * * * Distributed by 
Mineralpar Box 53 Cheyenne, Wyoming * * * sold only as a Mineral 
Supplement To Your Diet."
ACCOMPANYING LABELING: Leaflets entitled "How to Use Mineralpar" and 
"For All-Around Health Protection"; pamphlets entitled "Modern Miracle 
Men"; an undetermined number of "Mineralpar" labels and labeled retail 
boxes; and a number of copies of customer-signed invoices, given to customers
at the time of sale, on which were listed the diseases, conditions, and symp- 
toms for which the article was sold.
LIBELED :   2-7-61, Dist. Colo.
CHARGE: 502(a)-(article in bulk and as repacked)-while held for sale, the 
accompanying leaflet entitled "How to Use Mineralpar" contained false and 
misleading representations that the article was an adequate and effective 
treatment for "disorder or ailment"; the accompanying pamphlet entitled 
"Modern Miracle Men" contained false and misleading representations that 
the article was adequate and effective as a treatment for and preventive of 
diseases, disorder, suffering and shortened life, stupidity in children, rickets, 
bone deformities, bad teeth, nervous disorder, reduced resistance to disease, 
fatigue, behavior disturbances, such as incorrigibility, assaultiveness, and 
nonadaptability, affectations of the nose and throat, swollen glands, enlarged 
or diseased tonsils, defective vision, round shoulders, bowed legs, anemia, 
goiter, nerve function, nerve stability, nerve cell building, increased human 
death rate due to heart disease, deformities and arthritis, and would result in 
physical, moral, and mental fitness; the accompanying leaflet entitled "For 
Ail-Around Health Protection" contained false and misleading representa- 
tions that use of the article would prevent vitamin deficiency with resultant 
prevention of disorder and disease; and the accompanying invoices given to 
customers at the time of sale contained false and misleading representations 
that the article was an adequate and effective treatment for general body- 
building and conditioning, diabetes, nervousness, sleeplessness, fatigue, leg 
ulcers, hay fever, and to prevent colds; and 502(f) (1)-the labeling of the 
article failed to bear adequate directions for use for the purposes for which 
it was intended.
The article also was alleged to be misbranded under the provisions of the 
law applicable to foods as reported in notices of judgment on foods.
DISPOSITION :    3-31-61.    Default-destruction.