7200. Adulteratioja and Misbranding of Big G. V. S. * * * v. 11% Dozen 
Bottles of Big G. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.    (F. & D. No. 10414.    I. S. No. 13937-r.    S. No. B-1451.)
On May 26, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 Ill dozen bottles of Big G, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about November 1, 1918, by the Evans Chemical Co., Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted essentially of an aqueous solution of 
boric acid and berberine.   No hydrastine was present.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it was labeled on the carton as a compound of borated goldenseal, 
whereas it contained no borated goldenseal, and its strength and purity fell 
below the professed standard and quality under which it was sold.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that the cartons, bottle labels, and booklets bore certain statements
regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the article which were false 
and fraudulent in that they represented that the article was effective in the 
treatment, cure, or prevention of catarrh, hay fever, inflammations, irritations, 
or ulcerations of the mucous membranes or linings of the nose, throat, stomach, 
and urinary organs, for unnatural discharges of the urinary organs, inflamed, 
ulcerated, itching conditions of the skin and mucous membrane or linings of 
the mouth, nose, throat, eye and ear, inflammation of the eye, cystitis, gas- 
tritis, catarrh of the stomach, hemorrhoids, piles, throat troubles, gonorrheea, 
gleet, chronic gonorrhoea, stricture, folliculitis, gonorrhoeal prostatitis, sperma- 
torrhoea, bubo, gonorrhoeal cystitis, balanitis, inflammation or swelling of a 
lymphatic gland of the groin, leucorrhoea, whites, catarrh of the vagina, and. 
certain other diseases, whereas the drug was not capable of producing the 
curative and therapeutic effects claimed for it.
On June 17, 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 be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.