7360. Misbx*andingr of Knoxit Injection and Knoxit Liquid. TJ. S. * * * 
v. 6 Dozen Bottles of Knoxit Injection and 13 Dozen Bottles of 
Knoxit Liquid. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (P. & D. No. 10059.    I. S. Nos. 2424-r, 2425-r.    S. No. W-307.)
On April 23, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 6 dozen bottles of Knoxit Injection and 12 dozen bottles 
of Knoxit Liquid, consigned by the Beggs Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill., remaining un- 
sold in the original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that 
the article had been shipped on October 30, 1918, and November 30, 1918, and 
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transported from the State of Illinois into the State of California, and charging 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of samples made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed that the articles consisted essentially of glycerin, zinc acetate, hydrastis, 
and water perfumed with oil of rose.
Misbranding of the articles was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that the retail carton, bottle label, and circular bore certain statements which 
were false and fraudulent in that they represented that the articles were treat- 
ments, remedies, cures, or prophylactics for gonorrhoea, catarrhal affections of 
the eye, nose, throat, genito-urinary organs, inflammation, hemorrhoids, ulcers, 
gonorrhoea in women and leucorrhoea, when, in truth and in fact, the articles 
contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the 
curative and therapeutic effects claimed for them.
On July 2, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments of 
condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the products be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.