30994. Misbranding of Anti-Firin.    V. S. v. Henry William Robinson and George
Norman Robinson (Marvel Remedies Co.). Pleas of nolo contendere. 
Defendants placed on probation for 2 years. (F. & D. No. 42637. Sample 
Nos. 24376-C, 18178-D.)
The label of this veterinary product bore false and fraudulent representa- 
tions regarding its curative and therapeutic effectiveness, 
- On January 12, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Henry William Robinson and George 
Norman Robinson, trading as the Marvel Remedies Co., San Francisco, Calif., 
alleging shipment by said defendants in violation of the Food and Drug Act 
as amended, on or about March 1, 1937, and May 10, 1938, from the State ot 
California into the State of Nevada of quantities of Anti-Firin that was 
misbranded.
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of castor oil containing 
approximately 6 percent of methyl salicylate, colored with a red dye.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that certain statements, designs, 
and devices regarding its curative and therapeutic effects, borne on the can 
labels and in accompanying circulars falsely and fraudulently represented (in the 
case of one shipment) that it was effective to relieve boils and warts and as a 
treatment for boils; effective to relieve fistula, wire cuts, harness sores and 
wounds, lameness, thrush, bow tendons, fiplints, big knees, ringbone and side- 
bone (of short standing), and warts in horses; effective as a treatment for
lameness in horses; effective to relieve cake bag, warts, foxtail, wire cuts, 
and lameness in cows; effective as a treatment for cake bag, foxtail, and 
warts in cows; effective to relieve lameness, mange, minor cuts, and wounds 
in dogs; effective as a treatment for lameness, mange, wire cuts, and warts 
in dogs; and effective to relieve without firing, blemish, or pain; and (in the 
case of the other shipment) that it was effective as an absorbent and healer; 
effective to absorb all inflammation, foreign or poisonous-matter; effective 
to remove burns, rheumatic pains, boils, warts, swellings, and skin infections 
such as eczema and ringworm; effective as a treatment for burns and cuts; 
effective to remove fistula, wire cuts, harness sores and wounds, lameness, 
cracked heels, thrush, bow tendons, poll evil, bone spavins, splints, big knees, 
shoe boils, ringbone, sidebones, spavins, and saddle and harness sores on horses; 
effective as a treatment for severe cases of lameness, long-standing enlarge- 
ments (hard or soft), swelling, and severe tendon and ligament cases in horses; 
effective to remove cake bag, foxtail, wire cuts, cowpox, ringworm, lameness, 
and sore feet on cows; effective as a treatment for inflammation of the udder, 
cake bag, and foxtail in cows; effective to remove lameness, dropped muscles, 
mange, canker, and cuts and wounds of all kinds on dogs; effective as a treat- 
ment for lameness, mange, and other skin infections in dogs, and as a treatment 
for foot ailments in animals; effective as a treatment for open wounds, in- 
flammation of the skin, flesh, bone or tendon, and wire cuts in animals; and 
effective to relieve, without firing, blemish or pain.
On June 6, 1939, the defendants entered pleas of nolo contendere and the 
court sentenced them to 2 years' probation.
GSOVBB B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.