22968. Adulteration and misbranding of Sulfox.     V. S. v. 142 Bottles and 53
Bottles of Sulfox.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. nos. 32543, 32544.    Sample nos. 61721-A, 61800-A.)
This case involved a drug product that was labeled with unwarranted 
claims as to its curative and therapeutic properties. It was also claimed for 
the article that it contained sulphur and oxygen and would be effective in 
destroying germs, whereas it contained no free sulphur or free oxygen, and 
would not destroy germs.
On April 14, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 200 bottles 
of Sulfox at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, in part on or about December 11, 1931, and in part on 
or about January 27, 1932, by the Sulfox Manufacturing Co., from Mansfield, 
Ohio, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act as amended.
Analyses showed that the article consisted of sulphur dioxide (not more 
than 0.3 percent), sulphuric acid (0.36 percent), ash (a trace), and water 
(more than 99 percent).
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that its 
strength fell below the professed standard or quality under which it was 
sold, namely, (circular wrapped around the bottle) " Germ destroyer, * * * 
Its * * * Germ-Destroying Powers Destroys all Germs * * * Sulfox 
contains sulphur    *    *    *    and oxygen."
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the following statements in the 
circular were false and misleading: " Germ destroyer * * * Its * * * 
Germ-Destroying Powers destroys all germs, * * * Sulfux contains sulphur 
* * * and oxygen." Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that 
the shipping container, bottle label, and circular contained false and fraudu- 
lent claims relative to its effectiveness to promote better health, keep the 
blood pure, regulate bowel action, purify the blood, destroy germs, and its 
effectiveness in stomach trouble, misery and torture at menstrual time, female 
trouble, boils, blood poisoning, sick stomach, pyorrhea, catarrh, throat trouble, 
etc, poor circulation, pollution of the blood stream, poisons of the system, 
diseases caused by the teeth, rheumatism, neuritis, nervousness, lumbago, 
catarrh, indigestion, stomach, kidney, bladder, heart, throat and lung trouble, 
torpid-liver, run-down condition, pyorrhea halitosis, sugar diabetes, sleepless- 
ness.
On June 4, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.