5598.   Misbranding   of   " Palmer's   STrin   Whitener."     U.   S.      *      * *      v.  20
Dozen     *    " *      *     Packages   of  Palmer's   Skin   Whitener. Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction. (F.   &   D.
No. 6468.    I. S. No. 1873-k.    S. No. E-244.)
On April 26, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con- 
demnation of 20 dozen packages of " Palmer's Skin Whitener," remaining unsold 
in the original unbroken packages at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging that the article 
had been shipped on or about September 30, 1914, by Jacobs' Pharmacy Co., 
Atlanta, Ga., and transported from the State of Georgia into the State of 
Florida, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as 
amended.
It was alleged in substance in the libel, that the article was misbranded for 
the reason that certain statements appearing on the labels of the article falsely 
and fraudulently represented it as effective for clearing and brightening the 
complexion, for eczema, pimples, tetter, ringworm, eruptions of the skin, black- 
heads, sallow complexion, liver splotches, tan, sunburn, and freckles, as a skin 
bleach, and for clearing the complexion and whitening sallow or dark skin, and 
as a treatment for eczema, pimples, sallow complexion, tan, sunburn, and 
freckles, whereas, in truth and in fact, the article contained no substance, nor 
combination of substances, capable of producing the therapeutic effects claimed 
for it.
On September 13, 1916, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.