21179. Adulteration and Misbranding of Acme Medicated Stock Salt. V. S. 
v. Twenty-Three 25-Pound Bags, et al., of Acme Medicated Stock 
Salt. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.    F. & D. no. 29910.    Sample no. 34878-A.)
This case involved a medicated salt which was represented to contain yeast. 
No yeast was found in the samples of the product examined by this 
Department.
On March 9, 1933, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of twenty-three 
25-pound bags, sixteen 50-pound bags, and twenty-one 100-pound bags of Acme 
Medicated Stock Salt at Swoyersville, Pa., alleging that the article had been 
chipped in interstate commerce, on or about December 24, 1932, by the Acme 
Stock Salt Corporation, from Fostoria, Ohio, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this Department showed that it 
'onsisted of sodium chloride (79.7 percent), calcium carbonate, magnesium 
sulphate, iron sulphate, and small proportions of sodium bicarbonate, sulphur, 
fenugreek, quassia, nux vomica, potassium iodide, and charcoal. No yeast 
was found.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that its 
strength fell below the professed standard and quality under which it was 
sold, namely, (sack) "Yeastolized   *    *    *   Yeast."
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements on the sack, 
"Yeastolized   *   *   *   Yeast", were false and misleading.
On June 28, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.