NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2380.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OF MINERAL WATER.
On October 28, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Nebraska, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an 
information against P. F. Panabaker, trading as the Hiccura Mineral 
Water Co., Omaha, Nebr., alleging shipment by him, in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 29,1911, from the State 
of Nebraska into the State of Kansas of a quantity of mineral water 
which was misbranded. The product was labeled: (On bottles) 
"Hiccura Mineral Water—$1.00 Hiccura Mineral Water Co., 105 So. 
15th St., Omaha, Nebr. (Notice) This water is Hiccura Springs 
Water filtered through great bodies Hiccura Mineral dug from under 
Hiccura Springs and permitted to oxidize in open air. * * * " (On 
circulars) "Natural Mineral Water. Pure Natural Remedy. The 
minerals of a Natural Mineral Water are food properties necessary 
to the blood and tissues of the body. Its food minerals are in the 
nicest, active and wholesome chemical forms suited to the needs of 
the diseased body. It is to be regarded as a food, not as a medicine. 
If a medicine is narcotic, it stimulates and may fatally shatter the 
system; if it is opiate, it stupefies and may render the system fatally 
inert; but a natural mineral water nourishes the system by its 
wholesome, active food—minerals—supplies energy and rebuilds 
blood and tissues. Hiccura Mineral Water is the strongest and most 
perfect of Natural Waters."
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Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results:
Ions. 
Grams per litre.
Arsenic acid (As04) 
0. 000
Sulphuric acid (SO.,) 
86. 981
Chlorin (01) 
000
Ferric iron, Few 
23. 578
Ferrous iron, Fe" 
. 549
Aluminium (Al) 
3. 429
Manganese (Mn) 
000
Calcium (Ca) 
580
Magnesium (Mg) 
1. 370
Sodium (Na) 
079
Copper (Cu) 
000
Total 
116. 566
Hypothetical combination. 
Grams per litre.
Sodium sulphate (Na2S04) 
0. 244
Magnesium sulphate (MgS04) 
6. 782
Calcium sulphate (Cal 
1. 970
Ferric sulphate (Fed(S04)3) 
84. 414
Aluminium sulphate (A1,(S04)3) 
21. 663
Ferrous sulphate (fest) 
1. 493
Total 
116. 566
Misbranding of the product was alleged in the information for the- 
reason that the statement on the circular attached to the package, 
''Natural Mineral Water," was false and misleading, as said product 
was not a natural mineral water, but an artificial mineral water, and 
was further misbranded in that the statement in said circular, "Pure 
Natural Remedy/' was false and misleading, as it conveyed the impres- 
sion that the product was a pure natural mineral water, whereas it 
was not a natural product, but an artificial mineral water, and was 
further misbranded for the reason that the statements appearing on 
the circular, as set forth above, were false and misleading, as they 
conveyed the impression that the product was not to be considered as 
a drug, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was an artificially prepared 
mineral water containing medicinal salts.
On December 20,1912, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the 
information and the court imposed a fine of $15 and costs.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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