25422. Adulteration and misbranding of Hospital Brand Rubbing: Alcohol. 
IT. S. v. 574 Bottles of Hospital Brand Rubbing: Alcohol. Default 
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 37071. 
Sample no. 50711-B.)
This article failed to conform to its professed standard and its label bore a 
false representation regarding its composition and was without a statement of 
the quantity or proportion of alcohol in the article.
On January 16, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of a quantity of Hospital 
Brand Rubbing Alcohol at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about December 2, 1935, by the Red 
Chemical Co., from Newark, N. J., to New York, N. Y., and charging adultera- 
tion and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: (Bottle) "Hospital Brand Rubbing Alcohol 70 proof Isopropyl 
Alcohol—Uses:—* * * As a sponge in case of fever. As a household anti- 
septic on cuts, bruises, insect bites, etc. * * * Meeker Pharmacal Co., 
Newark, N. J."
Adulteration of the article was charged under the allegation that its strength 
and purity fell below the professed standard under which it was sold, namely, 
"Rubbing Alcohol", and the article did not contain ordinary (ethyl) alcohol 
but consisted of a mixture of Isopropyl alcohol and water.
Misbranding was charged (a) under the allegation that the statement on the 
label, to wit, "Rubbing Alcohol", was false and misleading in that the article 
did not consist of ordinary (ethyl) alcohol but was a mixture of isopropyl alco- 
hol and water; (b) under the allegation that the package failed to bear upon 
its label a statement of the quantity or proportion of isopropyl alcohol con- 
tained in the article in that the expression "70 proof Isopropyl Alcohol" was 
meaningless.
On February 17, 1936, no claimant having appeared, a default decree of 
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction was entered.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.