16302. Misbranding of Jarabe Denecband. tl. S. v. 54 Dozen Bottles, et al., 
of Jarabe Denecband. Decrees of condemnation and forfeiture 
entered. Product released nnder bond. (P. & D. Nos. 22863, 22864, 
22865.    I. S. Nos. 20744-x, 20745-x, 20746-x.    S. No. 901, 914, 915.)
On or about July 11, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of 
Porto Rico, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and 
condemnation of 81% dozen bottles of Jarabe Denechaud at San Juan, P. R., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by Brewer & Co., Worcester, Mass., 
in various consignments on or about April 15 and April 27, 1927, and March 16 
and April 27, 1928, and transported from the State of Massachusetts into Porto 
Rico, and that it was being offered for sale and sold in Porto Rico, and charg- 
ing misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that it con- 
sisted essentially of pine tar, menthol, chloroform, material derived from cod 
liver oil, sugar, alcohol, and water.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was misbranded in that the 
following statements regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the said 
article were false and fraudulent, since it contained no ingredients or combina- 
tion of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed: (Wrapper of por- 
tion of product, in Spanish) " Bronchial and Laryngeal affections, chronic 
catarrhs and whooping cough. Affections of the respiratory organs and pul- 
monary tuberculosis. * * * prescribed by specialists for the treatment of 
affections of the bronchi, lungs, cough, and catarrhal affections;" (on carton 
and bottle label of portion of product, in Spanish) " Bronchitis and pulmonary 
affections, whooping cough and asthmatic tendencies. * * * Syrup Dene- 
chaud is an anti-tubercular preventive, pulmonary reconstituent and sedative 
of broncho-laryngeal affections."
On November 17, 1928, A. Rodriguez, San Juan, P. R., having appeared as 
claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of the libels, 
judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by
the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of 
costs and the execution of bonds totaling $700, conditioned in part that it should! 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of until properly labeled as required by law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.