10115.?Misbranding of hog cholera, mixture.     U. S.     *     *      *     v. 20 Bottles
of * * * Wm. Hall's Hog Cholera Mixture. Default decree of?
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (P. & D. No. 9166. I. S.?
No. 12161-p.    S. No. C-9-35.)
On July 24, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Arkansas, 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 20 bottles of Wm. Hall's hog cholera mixture, at Marianna,?
Ark., consigned by James F. Ballard, St. Louis, Mo., and received on or about?
June 14, 1918, alleging that the article had been shipped from St. Louis, Mo.,?
and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Arkansas, and charg??
ing misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article?
was labeled in part: (Bottles) "Wm. Hall's Hog Cholera Mixture * * *?
Prepared by The Wm. Hall Medicine Co. James F. Ballard, Prop. St. Louis,?
Missouri * * *"; (carton) " Wm. Hall's Hog Cholera Mixture Is Recom??
mended For Cholera * * * Directions. * * * For those that are not?
yet s'ck, but have been with infected hogs or in infected places, give the dose?
and treatment, described as a preventive, * * * This will tend to destroy?
the germ of the disease before it has a chance to develop."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that it consisted of turpentine oil, sodium thiosulphate, sodium?
bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, tar, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that the above-quoted statements appearing on the bottle label and carton were?
false and fraudulent, since the said article contained no ingredients or combina??
tion of ingredients capable of producing the curative and therapeutic effects?
claimed.
On October 2, 1919, no claimant having appeared for 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.
C. W. PXJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.