7497.   Misbranding    of    Renovine.      TJ.    S,    *    *    *    v.    Van.    Vleet-Mansfieldl?
Drag  Co., a corporation.    Plea of g-nilty.    JFiree, $50 and costs.     (F.
& D. No. 10781.    I. S   No. 6165-r )
On October 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co., a corporation, Memphis, Tenn., alleging shipment?
by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or?
about May 22, 1918, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Oklahoma, of?
a quantity of an article, labeled in part " Renovine," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that it consisted essentially of potassium bromid, salicylic acid, a?
laxative plant material, alcohol, and water. A small amount of cinchona alka??
loids was also indicated.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was misbranded?
for the reason that certain statements appearing on the labels of the bottles?
and cartons falsely and fraudulently represented it as a treatment, remedy, and?
cure for diseases of the heart and nerves, palpitation of the heart, shortness of?
breath, fluttering or irregular pulse, smothering or fainting spells, dizziness,?
ringing in the ears, spasms, epilepsy, nervousness, despondency, melancholia,?
hysteria, and all diseases peculiar to a weak and feeble heart or nervous de??
rangements, and for change of life and nervous disorders, when, in truth and?
in fact, it was not. It was alleged in substamo that the article was misbranded?
for the further reason that certain statements, included in the circular accom??
panying said article, falsely and fraudulently represented it as a treatment,?
remedy, and cure for stomach trouble and indigestion, any disease affecting the?
lungs, rheumatism, inebriety, excessive use of tobacco or other narcotics, kidney?
diseases, la grippe, pneumonia, malaria, or other fever, apoplexy, St. Vitus'?
dance, paralysis, nervous headache or backache, when, in truth and in fact, it?
was not.
On November 17, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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