2894. Adulteration and misbranding of.ammonium salicylate compound tablets.   U. S. v.?
John T. Milliken & Co.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $30 and costs.   (F. & D. No. 4359.   I. S.
No. 16023-d.)
On November 5,1913, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the?
United States for said district an information against John T. Milliken, doing business?
under the firm name and style of John T. Milliken & Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging?
shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about No??
vember 11, 1911, from the State of Missouri into the State of Indiana, of a quantity?
of so-called "Ammonium Salicylate Compound Tablets," which were adulterated and?
misbranded. The tablets were labeled: "500 compressed tablets No. 23. Ammo??
nium salicylate comp. Each tablet represents phenacetine 1 gr. Salicine 1? grs.?
Ammonium salicylate 3 grs. Caffeine ? gr. Dose, 1 to 2 tablets. 27566 guaran??
teed by Jno. T. Milliken & Co. under Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. No. 1392.?
Jno. T. Milliken & Co., manufacturing chemists, St. Louis, U. S. A., 6610."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed the following results: Each tablet represents acetphenetidin (phenacetin),?
0.853 grain; salicin, 0.989 grain; ammonium salicylate, 1.685 grains; caffein, 0.465?
grain. Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it fell below the professed standard under which it was sold, to wit, phenacetin, 1?
grain; salicin, 1? grains; ammonium salicylate, 3 grains; caffein, one-half grain, in that?
said tablets each contained only 0.853 grain phenacetin, 0.989 grain salicin, 1.685?
grains ammonium salicylate, and 0.465 grain caffein. Misbranding was alleged for the?
reason that the statement borne on the label set forth above was false and misleading,?
because it created the impression and led the purchaser to believe that the product?
contained said amounts of phenacetin, salicin, ammonium salicylate, and caffein, as?
therein stated, when, in truth and in fact, the tablets contained only 0.853 grain phe??
nacetin, 0.989 grain salicin, 1.685 grains ammonium salicylate, and 0.465 grain caffein.
On November 24, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information?
and the court imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 18, 1914.