9553. Misbranding of Capitol hog remedy.    U. S.     *     *     *     v. Capitol Food
Co.,  a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25 and costs.     (P.  &  D.
No.  11430.     I.  S. Nos.  14931-r,  14932-r.)
On January 18, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Capitol Food Co., a corporation, Tiffin, Ohio, alleging shipment by said company, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about December 3, 
1918, from the State of Ohio into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of 
Capitol hog remedy which was misbranded.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted essentially of sodium sulphate, sodium 
chlorid, charcoal, small amounts of nux vomica, alkaloids, ferrous sulphate, and 
plant material.    Iron oxid was present in one of the samples analyzed.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the therapeu-
tic and curative effects thereof, appearing on the labels of the packages con- 
taining the article and in a booklet contained in said packages, falsely and 
fraudulently represented that it was effective as a treatment, remedy, cure, or 
preventive of hog cholera, inflammatory diseases peculiar to swine, and all 
contagious diseases of swine, that it would purify the blood of swine, expel 
worms, prevent diseases of hogs and insure health to hogs, and would prepare- 
hogs for the market in a very short time, when, in truth and in fact, it did not 
contain ingredients1 effective for the purposes named.
On March 2(5, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture