4319.    Misbranding   of   " Bowden   Mtliia   "Water."     XJ.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Bowden?
Iiitliia   Spring's  Water  Co.,  a   corporation.     Plea of  gnilty.     Fine?
$50.     (F. & D. No. 3314.     I. S. No. 17729-c.)
On March 2, 1912, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary'of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district ah information against Bowden?
Lithia Springs Water Co., a corporation, Atlanta, 6a., alleging shipment by said?
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on May 8, 1911, from the?
State of Georgia into the State of Tennessee, of a quantity of a certain drug?
called " Bowden Lithia Water," which was misbranded. The article was?
labeled: (On small label) " Drink with meals and avoid indigestion." (On?
main label) "Bowden Lithia Water Analysis * * * 2J per cent of contents?
lithia * * *
 Bowden Lithia Water is especially indicated and prescribed in?
Brights' disease, calculi, gravel, stone in bladder or kidney, catarrh of bladder?
either acute or chronic, diabetes, gout, rheumatism, dispepsia, indigestion, acute?
or chronic, diarrhoea or dysentery, and of the very highest value in every form?
of skin and blood diseases. * * * Bottled only at the Springs by the?
Bowden Lithia Springs Water Co., Lithia Springs Ga. .U. S. A."
Analysis of a sample of the, article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed the following results, expressed as milligrams per liter:
Ions:
Silica   (SiOa)?
?54.6
Sulphuric acid   (SO*)?
-??223.5
Bicarbonic acid   (HCOs)?
?97.2
Nitric acid   (N03)?
?0.1
Chlorin   (CI)?
1,221.5
Iron   (Fe)?
___ 1
Aluminum   (Al)?
J??" 8
Calcium   (Ca)__?
?133.7
Magnesium   (Mg)?
??   10.2
Potassium   (K)?
?21.1
Sodium   (Na)?
?749.2
Lithium   (Li)?
?0. 5
Oxygen (O) calculated?
?0,3
Total?
2, 512.7
Hypothetical combinations :
Lithium chlorid   (LiCl)?
?3.0
Potassium chlorid  (KC1)?
        40.2
Sodium nitrate (NaNOs) ??
?0.1
Sodium chlorid (NaCl)?
1,904.3
Magnesium chlorid   (MgCl2)?
        39.9
Calcium chlorid (CaCL)?
        23.6
Calcium sulphate (CaS04)?
      316.8
Calcium bicarbonate  (Ca(HCOs)2)?
:____      129.1
Ferric oxid  (Fe203)?-?
Alumina (ALOs).                                                                 ? r        1.1?
Silica   (SIO.)?
        54.6     .
Total?
2, 512. 7
The allegations in the information were to the effect that the article was?
misbranded for the reason that the labels on the bottles and packages contain??
ing said drug bore a statement and statements regarding it, and the ingredients
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and the substances contained therein, to wit, " 2J per cent of contents lithia,"?
which said statement was false and misleading in that said drug did not con??
tain 2J per cent lithia, but did contain a much less amount than 2? per cent of?
lithia, to wit, only & milligram of lithium per liter. It was further alleged?
that said label also bore the words and statement " Bowden Lithia Water,"?
thereby meaning that the contents of the bottles and packages was lithia water,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, the said bottles and packages did not contain?
lithia water, and the said contents thereof was not lithia water, and there was?
not present in the contents of the said bottles and packages and in the water?
contained therein lithia in sufficient quantity and per cent thereof to justify?
the said contents in being called and classified as lithia water, nor did said?
water contain a sufficient amount of lithia to give and produce the therapeutic?
effect of lithia water.
On October 20, 1915, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
GAEL VBOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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