10048. Misbranding: of Shores sarsaparilla. TJ. S. * * * v. Shores-?
Mueller Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $20 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 15057.    I. S. No. 356&-t.)
At the September, 1921, term of the United States District Court within and?
for the Northern District of Iowa, the United States attorney for said dis??
trict, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court aforesaid an information against the Shores-Mueller Co., a corporation,?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about October 14, 1920, from the State?
of Iowa into the State of Minnesota, of a quantity of Shores sarsaparilla which?
was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it contained extracts of plant drugs, including a laxa??
tive drug, a salicylate, a small amount of ammonium chlorid, a trace of al??
cohol, glycerin, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for?
the reason that certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the thera??
peutic and curative effects thereof, appearing on the labels of the bottles con??
taining the said article and in an accompanying circular, falsely and fraudu??
lently represented it to be effective as a remedy, treatment, or cure for catarrh,?
rheumatism, blood disorders, boils, pimples, skin eruptions, blood and skin?
diseases, bad breath, impure blood, tired, worn-out feeling, general debility,?
female weakness, salt rheum, and eczema, when, in truth and in fact, it was?
not.
On October 6, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be??
half of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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