7570. Adulteration and misbranding- of acid acetylo-salicylic taMets. 
U. S. * * * v. Harry A. Jame and Ir-tina: H. Annis (Jame *fc 
Annis). Pleas of guilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. No. 8218. I. S. No. 
1052G-1.)
On June 18, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Harry A. 
Jame and Irving H. Annis, trading as Jame & Annis, late of Chicago, Ill., 
alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about November 22, 1915, from the city of Omaha in the State of Ne- 
braska into the State of Minnesota, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part 
" Compressed Tablets Acid Acetylo-Salicylic," which was adulterated and mis- 
branded.
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the tablets contained 7.74 per cent of acetanilid, and 
were composed essentially of acetanilid, starch, and sugar.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it was offered for sale as and for tablets, each containing 5 grains of acetylo- 
salicylic acid, and its strength and purity fell below the professed standard 
and quality under which it was sold, in that each of said tablets did not contain 
any acetylo-salicylic acid whatever.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the following 
statements, designs, and devices, regarding the article and the ingredients and 
substances contained therein, appearing on the label, to wit, " Tablets Acid 
Acetylo-Salicylic 5 grains," were false and misleading in that they represented 
to purchasers that the article consisted of tablets, each of which 'contained 5 
grains of acetylo-salicylic acid, and for the further reason that it was labeled 
as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead purchasers into the belief that it con- 
sisted of tablets, each of which contained 5 grains of acetylo-salicylic acid, 
when, in truth and in fact, it did not consist of tablets, each of which con- 
tained 5 grains of acetylo-salicylic acid, but consisted of, to wit, tablets, which 
did not contain any acetylo-salicylic acid whatever. Misbranding was alleged 
for the further reason that the article contained 7.74 per cent of acetanilid, 
and the package failed to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or pro- 
portion of acetanilid contained therein.
On January 10, 1920, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,