17393. Misbranding of Ponca compound.     U. S. -v. 11 Boxes of Ponca Com 
pound.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 24721.    I. S. No. 037326.    S. No. 3071.)
On April 14, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation:
of 11 boxes of Ponca compound at Wichita, Kans., alleging that the article had 
toeen shipped by the Mellier Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo., on or about July 
-27, 1929, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Kansas, 
?and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that the tablets 
'contained sodium bicarbonate, sulphur, and extracts of plant drugs.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the follow- 
ing statements regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the said article 
"were false and fraudulent, since it contained no ingredient or combination of 
ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed: " Uterine, alterative for 
leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhcea, metritis, endo-metritis, menorrhagia, 
irregular menstruation, subinvolution, painful pregnacy."
On June 18, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
ihat the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.