10118.?Misbranding of American  hog  remedy.    TJ.   S.     *     *     *     v.   Chancy
A. Jones, P. E. Pronse, George W. Hoffman, Jacob Clady, and?
Ralph W. Harris (The American Remedy Co.). Pleas of nolo con??
tendere.    Fine, $25 and costs.    (F. & D. No. 10776.    I. S. No. 5916-r.)
On February 10, 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 Chancy?
A. Jones, P. E. Prouse, George W. Hoffman, Jacob Clady, and Ralph W.?
Harris, trading as the American Remedy Co., Tiffin, Ohio, alleging shipment?
by said defendants, on or about December 13, 1917, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Ohio into the State of Kansas, of a?
quantity of American hog remedy which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted essentially of iron sulphate, magnesium sul??
phate, salt, charcoal, nux vomica, and ground vegetable material.
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 packages containing the?
said article, falsely and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a pre??
ventive and as a treatment, remedy, and cure for hog cholera, swine plagues,?
and inflammatory and all contagious diseases peculiar to swine, when, in truth?
and in fact, it was not.
On March 26, 1920, the defendants entered pleas of nolo contendere to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting' Secretary of Agriculture.