20800. Adulteration of tonsrallne and lithia tablets.    V. S. v. Mueller Drug- 
Co. Plea of guilty.   Fine, $50.    (F. & D. no. 27530.    I. S. no. 11948.)
This action was based on a shipment of drug tablets that were found to 
contain a smaller amount of sodium salicylate than declared on the label.
On March 19, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
district court of the United States an information against the Mellier Drug 
Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by said company in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act on or about February 6, 1931, from the 
State of Missouri into the State of California, of a quantity of tongaline and 
lithia tablets that were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " leg- 
alize and Lithia Tablets * * * Mellier Drug Company * * * St. 
Louis    *    *    *   Each tablet contains 2 grains Sodium Salicylate."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that its 
strength and purity fell below the professed standard and quality under 
which it was sold, in that each of the tablets was represented to contain 2 
grains of sodium salicylate, whereas they contained not more than 1.706 
grains of sodium salicylate.
On March 29, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.