7812. Misbranding? of Allan's Compound. Extract of Sarsaparilla with 
Iodides. U. 8. * * * v. 14 Bottles of Ailitn's Compound Extract of 
Ssirssiparilia with lotlitles. Default decreo of condemnation, for- 
feiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 11GG2. I. S. No. 0424-r. S. No. 
C-1593.)
On November 18, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Illinois, 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 14 bottles of Allan's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla with 
Iodides, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Cairo, Ill, con- 
signed by the Allan-Pfeiffer Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about June 28, 1919, and transported from the 
State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, and charging misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted essentially of a laxative plant drug, plant 
extractives, sodium salicylate, a small amount of potassium iodid, glycerin, 
sugar, alcohol, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel in that the statements on 
the labels of the bottles containing, and on the carton enclosing the article, 
regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the article, to wit, "Allan's 
Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla with Iodides * * * Skin and Blood 
purifier; best known remedy for pimples, pustules, tetter or salt rheum blotches, 
tumors, bolls, ring-worm, sores, ulcerations, scrofula, syphilitic affections, can- 
cerous tumors, catarrh * * *," "Allan's Ccmpouud Extract of Sarsa- 
parilla, with Iodides, * * ::', Skin and Blood Remedy, recommended for 
pimples, pustules, tetter or salt rheum blotches, tumors, boils, ring-worm, 
ulcers, scrofula, and syphilis. Powerful purifier of the blood, * * * remov- 
ing those matters which disturb its purities * * * Compound Extract of 
Sarsaparilla with Iodides * * * blood purifier * * *; useful in * * * 
syplulis and merearial diseases * * * ; other aids to rapid cure should be 
employed, as moderately generous diet of nourishing food, exhilarating outdoor 
exercise, bathing, fruition of the skin, etc. * * :\" were false and fraudulent 
in that the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable 
of producing the effects claimed for the article in the above statements, and 
that the contents of the bottles consisted of sweetened hydro-alcoholic solution 
of glycerin, salicylate, plant extractive material, including a laxative drug, 
and a trace of iodid.
On December 22. 1919, no claimfi nt having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marslial.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.