9154. Misbranding of JKelloss's Sanitone Wafers. IT. S. * * * v. 10 
Dozen Packages of Keilogg's Sanitone Wafers. Default decree of 
condemnation, forfeiture?, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 13299. 1. S. 
No.  9407-t.    S.  No.  E-2576.)
On August 25, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Georgia, 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 a.Md 
condemnation of 10 dozen packages of Keilogg's. Sanitone Wafers, remaining 
in the unbroken packages at Atlanta, Ga., alleging .that the article had been 
shipped by the F. J. Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich., on or about May 28, 
1918, and transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Georgia, 
and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. 
The article was labeled in part: (Circular) "The Uses of Chromium Sulphate 
in Medicine. * * * We recommend and advise you to give Keilogg's Sani- 
tone Wafers a fair, persistent trial in any of the diseases or troubles mentioned 
in the above article. * * * ¦ Cystitis * * * prostatic enlargements 
* * * uterine fibroid tumors * * * Herpes preputialis ' * * * cir- 
rhosis of the female breast, castration, menopause, functional impotency in men, 
chronic alcoholism, nervous vomiting and vomiting in :pregnancy, * * * neu- 
rasthenia, exophthalmic goiter, and locomotor ataxia are, of particular interest 
and importance. Results from this salt (chromium sulphate) are speedy and 
striking. In * * * neurasthenia it deserves the unique position of being the 
only drug which is curative, * * * Locomotor ataxia is curable with chro- 
mium sulphate. * * * The wafers have chromium sulphate as their chief 
ingredient."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that it consisted pills containing essentially salts of iron and 
chromium, a laxative plant extractive, capsicum, and a trace of strychnine.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that the above-quoted statements, regarding the curative and therapeutic effects 
thereof, appearing in the circulars accompanying and inclosed with the pack- 
ages containing the said product, were false and fraudulent in that the article 
contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing 
the therapeutic, curative, and preventive effects claimed for it.
On January 24, 1921, no claimant having appeared"foe the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. -
E. D. BALL,. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.