30222. Adulteration  and misbranding of  Orchotlne  Tablets.     V.  S.  v.  Hudson
Pharmacal Co., Inc., and Edward Fetterly. Pleas of guilty. Corpora- 
tion fined $50 on each of three counts; payment suspended. Individual 
fined $50 on each of three counts: payment suspended on counts 2 and 3.
(F. & D. No. 39828.    Sample No. 33569-C.)
The labeling of this product bore false and fraudulent curative and thera- 
peutic claims and false and misleading representations regarding its constituents.
On March 8, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Hudson Pharmacal Co., Inc., Union City, N. J., and 
Edward Fetterly, president of the said corporation, alleging shipment by said 
defendants in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended, on or about 
February 15 and April 15, 1937, from the State of New Jersey into the State of 
Illinois of a quantity of Orchotine Tablets that were adulterated and mis- 
branded.
Analysis showed that the article consisted of animal tissue, probably glandular 
in nature, each tablet containing 1/25 grain of extract of nux vomica.
Adulteration was alleged in that the strength and purity of the article fell 
below the professed standard and quality under which it was sold in that the 
tablets were represented to contain the active principles of the testes (inter- 
stitial cells of Leydig) with the other vital glands of the testicular cycle; 
whereas they did not contain the active principles of the testes with the other 
vital glands of the testicular cycle.
Misbranding was alleged in that the statement "contains the active principles 
of the testes (Interstitial cells of Leydig) with the other vital glands of the 
testicular cycle," borne on the bottle label, was false and misleading. Mis- 
branding was alleged further in that certain statements, designs, and devices 
regarding its therapeutic and curative effects, borne on the bottle label, falsely
and fraudulently represented that the article was effective as a treatment, 
remedy, and cure for fatigue, nervous exhaustion of men, sexual apathy, and 
"subefficiency."
On December 1, 1938, pleas of guilty were entered] on behalf of the defendants 
and -the court sentenced the corporation to pay a fine of $50 on each of the 
three counts, but suspended payment thereof; and sentenced Edward Fetterly 
to pay a fine of $50 on each of the three counts, but suspended payment of fine 
on counts 2 and 3.
HABBT L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.