27141. Misbranding «>* Pep-O Iodized Dairy Minerals.    IT. S. v. Clarence A. Near 
(Krauss-Near Chemical Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. no.
38621.    Sample no. 5196-C.)
The labeling of this article contained false and fraudulent representations 
regarding its curative and therapeutic effects for dairy cows.
On March 2, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Clarence A. Near, trading as Krauss-Near Chem- 
ical Co., Minneapolis, Minn., charging shipment by said defendant in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act as amended, on or about August 7, 1936, from 
the State of Minnesota into the State of Wisconsin of Pep-O Iodized Dairy 
Minerals that were misbranded.
Analysis of the article showed that it consisted essentially of calcium 
carbonate, calcium phosphate, sodium chloride, sodium sulphate, sodium bi- 
carbonate, small proportions of iron oxide, sulphur, potassium iodide, and 
compounds of copper and manganese.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that statements regarding its 
curative and therapeutic effects, in a circular enclosed in the bags con- 
taining it, falsely and fraudulently represented that it would be effective 
as a treatment, remedy, and cure for poor health and disease; effective to 
stimulate the flow of salivary juices during mastication, to make food more 
palatable and easier to digest, to increase the flow of gastric juices, to cause 
cows to give more milk, to furnish the minerals found in milk, to improve 
the digestive functions, to enable cows to produce a strong, healthy calf each 
year, to cure run-down cows, to keep the blood pure, to prevent indigestion, 
sour stomach, gas, belching, bloating, fever, and scours; effective to keep 
cows in perfect health, to assure maximum digestion and assimilation, more 
milk, better milk, lengthened milk period, and higher butterfat production; 
effective as a preventive of deficiency abortion, caked udder, milk fever, and 
weak calves; and effective immediately to increase the milk flow; to lengthen 
the breeding life of a cow, to help cows to clean better at calving time, to 
help reduce scours in calves, to build up cow's resistance to disease, to im- 
prove cow's digestive functions, to make cows contented, and to help cows to 
produce larger and stronger calves.
On March 2, 1937, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $50.
HAEBT L. BROWN, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.