10592.  Misbranding   of  French   cotton   root   pills.     TJ.   S.     *      *      *     v.   Wil??
liam   B.   MeDuffie   (French   Medicine   Co.).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,
$25.     (F. & D. No. 15566.    I. S. Nos. 9276-t, 9277-t.)
On December 19, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District?
of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
William B. McDuffie, trading as the French Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga., alleg??
ing shipment by said defendant on or about March 29, 1921, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as atoended, from the State of Georgia into the State of?
North Carolina, of quantities of French cotton root pills which were misbranded.?
The article was labeled in part, respectively: (Boxes) "French Cotton Root?
Pills (Double Strength) * * * Recommended for Delayed Menstruation and?
Irregularities. * * * French Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga."; and " French?
Cotton-Root Comp. Pills Recommended for Delayed Menses and Irregulari??
ties    *    *    *."
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that both the single and double strength pills contained iron?
sulphate, aloes, savin oil, and vegetable extractive matter.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for?
the reason that the above-quoted statements regarding the curative and thera??
peutic effects of the said article, appearing on the labels of the said boxes,?
falsely and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a treatment, remedy,?
and cure for delayed menstruation or delayed menses, as the case might be,?
and irrgularities, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On June 28, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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