10403. Misbranding of   liafayette   blackberry   cordial.    TJ.   S.     *     *     *     v.
The Lafayette Co., a Corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and 
costs.     (F. & D. No. 13949.    I. S. No. 12738-r.)
On May 24, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of New Hamp- 
shire, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Lafayette Co., a corporation, Berlin, N. H., alleging shipment by said 
defendant, on or about February 19, 1919, in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, as amended, from the State of New Hampshire into the State of Massa- 
chusetts, of a quantity of an article labeled in part " Lafayette Blackberry 
Cordial," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was a blackberry cordial.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was mis- 
branded for the reason that certain statements, designs, and devices regard- 
ing the therapeutic and curative effects of said article, appearing on the 
labels of the carton and bottle containing it and contained in the circular 
which accompanied it, falsely and fraudulently represented that th6 article 
was in whole or in part composed of or contained ingredients or medicinal 
agents effective, among other things, as a treatment, remedy, and cure for 
dysentery, cholera infantum, summer complaint, chronic diarrhea, colic, cramps, 
cholera, cholera morbus, and other stomach and bowel troubles, when, in 
truth and in fact, it was not so composed and did not contain such ingredients.
On May 28, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be- 
half of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and 
costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.