798t. Adulteration and misbranding of Bigr G. U. S. * * * v. 522 Bottler 
of Big G. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No. 10352.    I. S. Nos. 7664-r, 7065-r.    S. No. C-1283 )
On June 21, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, 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 522 bottles of Big G, remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about June 10, 1918, and October 21, 1918, by the Evans Chemical Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of 
Oklahoma, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended.    The article was labeled in part, " Big G."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted of a dilute aqueous solution of borax and 
berberine.   No hydrastiue was present.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
bottle carton was labeled "A Compound of Borated Goldenseal," and its strength 
and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under which it wah 
sold.
Misbi'anding of the article was alleged in substance for the reason that cer- 
tain statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects thereof, appear- 
ing on the labels and in the circulars accompanying the article, falsely and 
fraudulently represented that the article was a treatment, remedy, and cure 
for catarrh, hay fever, and inflammations, irritations, or ulcerations of nrucous 
membranes or linings of the nose, throat, stomach, and urinary organs, un- 
natural discharges of the urinary organs, inflamed, ulcerated, itching conditions 
of the skin and mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, throat, eye, and ear, 
catarrh-chronic, of the head, gastritis, catarrh of the stomach, hemorrhoids, 
piles, gonorrhoea, gleet, chronic gonorrhoea, stricture, folliculitis, gonorrheal 
cystitis, leucorrhoea, whites, catarrh of the vagina, gonorrhoea in women, and 
certain other venereal diseases, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On October 16, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it Avas ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E, D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.