9363. Misbranding of Rawleigh's All-Medicine Hog Mixture.     U. S.     *     *     *
v. 15 Packages of Rawleigh's All-Medicine Hog Mixture. Default 
decree  of  condemnation,  forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.   &  D.  No.
12927.     Inv. Nos. 21137,  21048.     S. No. B-2362.)
On June 19, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina, 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 15 packages of Rawleigh's All-Medicine Hog Mixture, at 
Warrenton, N. C, alleging that the article had been shipped by the W. T. 
Rawleigh Co., Chester, Pa., on or about April 4, 1920, and transported from the 
State of Pennsylvania into the State of North Carolina, and charging misbrand- 
ing in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article was labeled 
in part: " Rawleigh's All-Medicine Hog Mixture * * * To' Prevent Disease, 
* * * If a contagious disease is in the neighborhood feed regularly as long 
as the contagion lasts. * * * Even hogs so sick with Cholera that they 
refused to eat anything else have had their appetites restored by it, and have
improved steadily until perfectly well. * * * Hog Cholera and Swine 
Plague * * * it is recommended as especially useful to help overcome and 
prevent these diseases, and has been found helpful in restoring hogs to health 
in many cases where they gave practically every symptom of being afflicted with 
one or the other of these diseases.    *    *    *    Use Enough To Do Some Good
* * * The Mixture should be given regularly at least several weeks to 
obtain appreciable benefit. * * * Give it a trial, a thorough test, and you 
will be unusually well pleased with the results * * * ;" (booklet in English 
and foreign languages) " * * * To Prevent Disease, * * * If a con- 
tagious disease is in the neighborhood feed regularly as long as the contagion 
lasts. * * * Even hogs so sick with Cholera that they refused to eat any- 
thing else have had their appetites restored by it, and have improved steadily 
until perfectly well."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted essentially of powdered sodium thiosulphate, 
phosphate, bicarbonate, chlorid,. and sulphate, ferrous sulphate, potassium 
nitrate, charcoal, lime, sulphur, buckthorn, and ginger.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that the above-quoted statements were false and fraudulent and were 
applied to the article so as to represent falsely and fraudulently to purchasers 
thereof that the article was an effective remedy for the purposes for which 
it was recommended, when, in truth and in fact, it was not, and it contained 
no ingredients or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects 
claimed for it.
On December 17, 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.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,