7811. Misbranding of Columbia Short Stop. TJ. S. * * * v. 4| Gross Bot- 
tles and 24 Dozen Bottles of a Drug Labeled " Columbia Short 
Stop." Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
x-eleased on bond. (F. & D. Nos. 10211, 10422. I. S. Nos. 16190-r, 10221-r. 
S.  Nos.  E-1361, E-3 444.)
On May 10 and May 24, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district libels for the seizure 
and condemnation of 4| gross bottles and 24 dozen bottles of Columbia Short 
Stop, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Jacksonville, Fla., 
and Tampa, Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about April 5, 
1919, and December 12 and December 20, 1917, consigned by the Columbia 
Drug Co., Savannah, Ga., and transported from the State of Georgia into the 
State of Florida, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, as amended.
Analysis of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted essentially of santal oil, copaiba, turpen- 
tine, gum acacia, ethyl nitrite, and alcohol, flavored with oil of lavender.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in that statements regarding the 
article on the labels on the bottles containing, and on the cartons enclosing 
the article, regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the article, to wit, 
" Columbia  Short  Stop for Gonorrhoea,  Gleet, Running Range,  Inflammation
of the Kidneys and Bladder * * * Continue taking several days after 
discharge stops * * *," were false, fraudulent, and misleading in that the 
article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of pro- 
ducing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed in the said statements.
On June 3, 1919, the Columbia Chemical Co., claimant, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be delivered to the said claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of bonds in the sum 
of $376 and in the sum of $194.50, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,