21524. Misbranding of lodostarine Tablets.      U. S. v. 25 Packages of lodos¬
tarine Tablets.     Default decree of destruction.    (F. & D. no. 30676. 
Sample no. 36190-A.)
This case involved a drug product which contained materially more iodine 
than declared on the label.
On June 28, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a libel 
praying seizure and condemnation of 25 packages of lodostarine Tablets at 
Ogden, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, 
in various consignments, on or about September 4, 1931, November 14, 1932, and 
April 18, 1933, by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., from Nutley, N.J., and charging 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this Department showed that the 
tablets contained 8.6 milligrams of iodine each.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label, "Each, tablet equivalent to five milligrams Iodine", was 
false and misleading, since the iodine content of the tablets was materially in 
excess of 5 milligrams each.
On October 19, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered finding the product misbranded and ordering that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.