19865. Misbranding of   aspirin   tablets.    TJ.   S.   v.   10   Display   Cards   of   1
Dozen Bottles Bach of Tim Tablets of Aspirin.    Default decree of 
condemnation and destruction.    (8735-A.    F. & D. No. 28523.)
Examination of the aspirin tablets involved in this action disclosed that the 
article contained no ingredient capable of producing certain curative and thera- 
peutic effects claimed on the bottle and carton labels, and on a display card to 
which the bottles.were attached.
On July 26, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 10 display cards, each containing one dozen 
bottles of Tru tablets of aspirin, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about April 11, 1932, by Max Michaelson, from Clarksburg, W. 
Va., to Pittsburgh, Pa., 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 approximately 5 grains of acetylsalicylic acid each.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the fol- 
lowing statements appearing in the labeling, regarding the curative or thera- 
peutic effects of the said article, were false and fraudulent: (Shipping carton 
and display card) "For * * * Coughs * * * For * * * La 
grippe^" (bottle) For * * * Acute Rheumatism * * * Pains of Nerv- 
ous Origin, Also for the Relief of Gout, Sciatica, Tonsilitis, Influenza."
On September 6, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.