6560. Figurama device.   (F.D.C. No. 42969.   S. No. 27-707 P.)
QUANTITY :   20 devices individually cartoned at St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn.
SHIPPED :   1-27-59 and 1-29-59, from Milf ord, Conn.
LABEL IN PAET :    "Tempulse Figurama   By Streamform Corp., New York, N.Y."
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION : Examination indicated that the device was a 
streamlined box-shaped housing containing an electric motor which provided 
vibrating and/or oscillating action to two pads located atop the housing. The 
pads contained a controlled heating element; and detachable tubular padded 
extensions converted the housing to a table-type device.
LIBELED :   4-7-59, Dist. Minn.
CHARGE: 502(f) (1)-while held for sale, the labeling of the article failed to 
bear adequate directions for use as a treatment for relieving polio or any 
disease of that type; reducing; easing an incurable disease; relieving ar- 
thritis, bursitis, rheumatism, and neuritis; increasing blood circulation to all 
parts of the body to keep one from becoming sick, losing hair, getting wrinkles, 
or having high blood pressure; improving posture and firming the body tis- 
sues ; banishing nervous tension; as a "help for everything" ; spot reducing and 
taking off inches; which were the conditions and purposes for which it was 
offered in oral statements made by a sales representative in Minneapolis, 
Minn., on 2-2-59 and 2-3-59.
DISPOSITION : In May 1959, the Streamform Corp. filed a claim to the articles. 
Thereafter, the action was removed at the claimant's motion to the United 
States District Court of New Jersey where an answer was filed by the claim- 
ant denying that the articles were misbranded. After further litigation 
including the submission of written interrogatories by the Government, the 
submission of answers by the claimant, a motion by the Government to compel 
further and more complete answers, and an order of the court that the claim- 
ants submit further and more complete answers, a consent decree of con- 
demnation was filed on 10-20-60. The claimant failed to file the bond re- 
quired by the consent decree for the release of the goods to the claimant for 
relabeling under Government supervision. A default decree was filed on 
1-27-6L and the devices were ordered to be turned over to the Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., for exhibit purposes.