6789. Misbranding of candy.'   U.  S. v.  7% Cases of  Candy.    Default decree of 
condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 11910.    Sample No. 65559-F.)
LIBEL FILED:    On or about March 8, 1944, District of Oregon.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about January 29, 1944, by the Evans Novelty Co., 
from Chicago, Ill.
PRODUCT: Candy: 7% cases, each containing 48 1-pound packages, at The 
Dalles, Oreg.
This product was short weight.
LABEL IN PART: "Caramels'Plus'."
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the statement which 
appeared on the label, "Net Weight One Pound," was false since it was incor- 
rect; and the statement in the leaflet enclosed within the retail package, "the 
addition of various Vitamins and Minerals to protect your health by increasing 
your resistance to illness" was false and misleading in that it represented and 
suggested that use of the product would increase resistance to disease, whereas 
it would not; Section 403 (e) (2), the product was food in package form and its 
label failed to bear an accurate statement of the quantity 6f contents; Section 
403 (j), the product was represented as a food for special dietary uses by man 
by reason of its vitamin A, vitamin Bi, vitamin B2, vitamin D, calcium, mag- 
nesium, potassium, iron, and phosphorus content, and its label failed to bear, 
as required by the regulations, a statement of the proportion of the minimum 
daily requirements of vitamins A, Bi, B2, and D, the minerals, calcium, iron, 
and phosphorus, and the quantity of magnesium and potassium supplied by a 
specified quantity of the product customarily or usually consumed during a 
period of 1 day; and it failed to bear a statement that the need for magnesium 
in human nutrition has not been established.
DISPOSITION: September 18, 1944. No claimant having appeared, judgment of 
condemnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.