6090.  Adulteration   and   misbranding   of   aspirin   tablets.     If.   S.    *    *    *    v.?
24 Packages of Aspirin Tablets.    Default decree o? condemnation,
forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 9518.    I. S. No. 6063-r.     S. No.?
C-1016.)
On December 2, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 24 original unbroken packages of a product purporting to be?
aspirin tablets, at Joplin, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or?
about November 15, 1918, by the Verandah Chemical Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., and?
transported from the State of New York into the State of Missouri, and?
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act.    The article was labeled in part, "Acetylsalicylic Acid Aspirin."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that its?
strength and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under which?
it was sold, that is, the quality indicated by the label, to wit, " Aspirin 5 gr.,"?
the said product in fact consisting of approximately 2.1 grains salicylic acid,?
together with corn starch, milk, sugar, talc, calcium carbonate, and a small?
amount of sodium citrate, with no acetylsalicylic acid present therein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the label borne?
on the packages was false and misleading in that it indicated that the product?
contained acetylsalicylic acid tablets, and [that the tablets] contained aspirin?
5 grains, when, in fact, the said product consisted approximately of 2.1 grains?
salicylic acid, together with corn starch, milk, sugar, talc, calcium carbonate^?
and a small amount of sodium citrate, with no acetylsalicylic acid present?
therein, and for the further reason that it was an imitation of, and was offered?
for sale under the name of, another article, to wit, "Acetylsalicylic Acid Tab??
lets Aspirin 5 Gr.," when, in fact, the article consisted of 2.1 grains salicylic?
acid, together with corn starch, milk, sugar, talc, calcium carbonate, and a?
small amount of sodium citrate, with no acetylsalicylic acid present therein.
On June 9, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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