10551.  Misbranding   of   Nnx-Anro-Papanad.     U.   S.     *      *      *     v.   124   Pack??
ages  of     *     *     *     Nnx-Anro-Papanad.     Default  decree  of condem??
nation, forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.  & D. No.  13568.     I.   S. Nos.?
10065-t, 10329-t.    S. No. W-723.)
On August 25, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
California, 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 124 packages of Nux-Auro-Papanad, remaining in the original?
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had?
been shipped by the American Apothecaries Co., New York, N. Y., on or about?
June 10, 1920, and transported from the State of New York into the State of?
California, and charging misbranding 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 it consisted of red sugar-coated pills containing strych??
nine, salts of zinc, calcium, and lithium, and creosote.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that it was labeled in part on the bottle as follows, " Nux-Auro-Papanad?
* ' * * Restorative, Aphrodisiac * * * Indicated in * * * Vaso-Motor-?
Paresis, Neurasthenia, Melancholia, Malnutrition, General Debility, Sexual Ex??
haustion * * *," which statements wTere false and fraudulent, since the said?
article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of produc??
ing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed.
On June 21, 1922, 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. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.