2986. Adulteration and misbranding İf Adiron.    IT. S. v. 20 Bottles, 16 Bottles,
and 600 Sample Packages of Adiron.    Default decree of condemnation 
and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 4252.    Sample Nos. 60557-E, 60558-E.)
This product was deficient in vitamin A and its label bore false and mis- 
leading claims regarding its efficacy in the.treatment of anemia.
On April 9, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Wash- 
ington filed a libel against 20 bottles each containing 60 tablets, 16 bottles each 
containing 250 tablets, and 600 sample packages of Adiron at Spokane, Wash., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
February 5 and March 7, 1941, from Chicago, Ill., by the Lawrence Labora- 
tories; and charging that it was adulterated and misbranded.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a valuable constituent, 
namely, vitamin A, had been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted there- 
from, ..'.'.
' It wajs alleged to be misbranded (1) in that the statement appearing oh the 
label, "Adiron * .*''*
' Tablets, each contain * * * 1200 U. S. P. XI Units 
Vitamin 'A,' " was false; (2) in that the following statements appearing in the 
labeling, "Adiron is guaranteed to carry these minimum potencies per average 
tablets: 1,200 USP XI Units Vitamin 'A"! and "This.core/is the concentrate, of 
the vitamins, equivalent in vitamins ..'A' and. 'DV to one-lialf. teaspoonful .of 
fresh TT. S   P. standard cod liver oil," were false when applied to an article
which contained only 67 U. S. P. units of vitamin A per tablet; and (3) in 
that statements, designs, and devices in the labeling which represented that it 
would be efficacious in the treatment of nutritional (secondary
.) anemia, that 
it would make new blood and improve and maintain the health, were false 
and misleading since it could not be relied upon to produce the effects claimed.
It was also alleged to be adulterated and misbranded in violation of the pro- 
visions of the law applicable to drugs, as reported in D. D. N. J. No. 567.
On May 26, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.