28979. Misbranding of Green Mountain Stick Salve.    U. S. v. 37 Sticks of Green
Mountain Stick Salve. Default decree of condemnation and destruc- 
tion.    (F. & D. No. 42075.    Sample No. 22021-D.)
The labeling of this product bore false and fraudulent curative and thera- 
peutic claims.
On March 30, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 37 sticks of Green 
Mountain Stick Salve at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about June 26, 1937, from Roulette, Pa., by Mrs. 
A. H. Westfall, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act as amended.
Analysis of the article showed that it consisted essentially of rosin, wax, and 
a small proportion of copper chloride.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the following statements 
appearing in the label falsely and fraudulently represented the curative or 
therapeutic effect of the article, since it contained no ingredient or combina- 
tion of ingredients capable of producting the effects claimed: "Highly recom- 
mended for pleurisy rheumatism lumbago * * * boils blood-poison and 
all infections.   *    *    *   For boils and sores."
On May 24, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.