22954. Misbranding of  Bromo Paper.     17.  S. v.  14  Cases  of Bromo  Paper.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,    forfeiture,    and   destruction.
(P. & D. no. 311S9.    Sample nos. 23458-A, 45001-A, 45002-A, 45003-A.)
This case involved a shipment of Bromo paper that was labeled with unwar- 
ranted curative and therapeutic claims.
On October 2, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 14 cases, 50 boxes 
each of Bromo Paper, at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce in various shipments on or about February 28, 
April 22, and August 1, 1983, by the Diamond Mills Paper Co., from Saugerties, 
N. Y., and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as 
amended.
Analysis showed that the article consisted of tissue paper impregnated with a 
small amount of mineral oil and a small amount of carbolic acid.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label and in the circular, " A positive preventative of that most 
distressing and almost universal complaint the Piles ", was false and fraudulent. 
? On September 27, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion and forfeiture was entered, and destruction of the product was ordered.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.