11380. TVHsTbu-anain;? of G Zit Complete-Steams'. V. S. v. 433 Packages of?
G Zit Complete-Steams'. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture.?
Prodnct released to claimants. (F. & D. No. 10571. I. S. No. 7687-r.?
S.  No.  C-1277.)
On June 10, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Michigan, 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 432 packages of G Zit Complete-Steams', each package con??
taining 1 box of Zit bougies and 9 boxes of Zit Antiseptic-Steams', at Detroit,?
Mich., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Stearns-Hollinshead?
Co., Inc., Portland, Oreg., August 3, 1918, and transported from the State of?
Oregon into the State of Michigan, 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 the bougies were composed essentially of cacao butter,?
silver nucleinate, and zinc phenolsulphonate, and that the antiseptic consisted?
of capsules containing copaiba, cubeb oleoresin, sulphur, and oil.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the?
reason that certain statements, instructions, and guarantee, appearing in the?
booklet with reference to the said Zit Complete-Stearns' and on the respective?
boxes containing the said bougies and antiseptic, falsely and fraudulently rep??
resented the article to be effective to destroy the germ of gonorrhea, to enable?
persons to avoid stricture, to enable gonorrheal patients to cure themselves, and?
to prevent sexual diseases from spreading from the afflicted, and that if the?
said treatment were used there would be less chance for complicated lasting?
disease, whereas, in truth and in fact, the said article contained no ingredient?
or combination of ingredients capable of producing the curative and thera??
peutic  effects claimed.
On September 14, 1920, the Central Drug Co., Detroit, Mich., and the Stearns-?
Hollinshead Co., Inc., Portland, Oreg., having entered an appearance as claim??
ants for the property and having submitted revised labels for the product,?
which labels had been found unobjectionable by this department, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the intervenors pay the costs of the proceedings. Bond having been filed,?
it was directed that the product be released to the said claimants in pursuance?
with an order of the court entered February 7, 1923.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.