10532. Misbranding of Nervosex tablets. IT. S. * * * v. 6 Packages of 
Nervosex Tablets. Default decx-ee of condemnation, forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 14572.    I. S. No. 8464-t.    S. No. E-3149.)
On March 1, 1921. the United States attorney for the Western District of Vir- 
ginia, 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 condem- 
nation of 6 packages of Nervosex tablets, rema'ning unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at Roanoke, Va., consigned .Tune 23, 1920, alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the United Laboratories, East St. Louis, Ill., and 
transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Virginia, and charging 
m'sbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the pills contained zinc phosphid, a phosphate, an iron 
compound, and vegetable constituents, including material derived from mu' 
vomica.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that certain statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the 
said article were false and fraudulent, in that it was stated upon the labels 
thereof that Nervosex tablets were a compound of nerve and muscle stimulants 
for low vitality, lack of energy, and sexual weakness, whereas, in truth and in 
fact, the said article would not produce the curative and therapeutic effects as 
claimed in said labels.
On August 16, 1921, 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. PUGSLKY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.