Issued May 20, 1921.
United States Department of Agriculture,
BUREAU   OF    CHEMISTRY.
C. L. ALSBEpG, Chief of Bureau.
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUPPLEMENT.
N. J. 8801-8850.?
[Approved liy the Acting Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, May 3, 1923.]
NOTICES OF JUDGMENT UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
[Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.]
SSOl. Misbranding1 of Liiiouine. 17, S. * * * -v. 6 Dozen Large and 18?
Dozen Small Bottles of l>liifg3>??n.e. Default decree of: condemnation,?
forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 12673. I. S. No. 419-r. S. No,?
E-2191.)
On May 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu??
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district a libel of information against 6?
dozen large and 18 dozen small bottles of Linonine, at Fall River, Mass., con??
signed by the Kerr Chemical Co., Danbury, Conn., on or about February 3,?
1920, alleging that the article had been transported from the State of Connecti??
cut into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and charging misbranding in?
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that it consisted essentially of an emulsion composed of linseed?
oil, oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus, methyl salicylate, glycerin, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel of information for the rea??
son that the following statements, regarding the curative and therapeutic effects?
thereof, (bottle) "Pulmonary Diseases, Consumption, Chronic Coughs, Chronic?
Bronchitis, the After Effects of La Grippe, Wasting Diseases, Rickets, Scrofula,?
Whooping Cough, Rheumatic  and  Strumous  Diseases,  General Debility, etc.
*?* * Linonine is Unsurpassed as a Strengthener, Builder, Blood Renewer?
and for Affections of the Throat and Lungs," (carton, large size only) " Linonine
*?* * Uses * * * Pulmonary Diseases, Consumption, Chronic Coughs,?
Chronic Bronchitis, the After Effects of La Grippe, Wasting Diseases, General?
Debility, etc. Linonine is Unequalled as a Strengthener, Builder, Blood Re-?
newer and Affections of the Throat and Lungs * * * the emulsion of lin??
seed oil * * * a most efficient remedy for expectorant coughs * * * in?
the most chronic forms of the disease * * * prophylactic against emphy??
sema * * * a remedy * * * in the asthmas which have a history of?
sequence to pertussis or measles * * * in the treatment of a phthisis in?
patients who cannot take cod liver oil, particularly in those who have much?
bronchitis    *    *    *    change the secretion from the    *    *    *    small adhesive,
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yellowish pellicle which, causes such severe coughing in chronic bronchial?
catarrh to the secretion which the patients themsehos will easily describe as?
loose and easy," were false and fraudulent, since the article contained no in??
gredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed.?
On November 12, 1920, no claimant 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 marshal.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.