8300. Misbranding of CeKelp.    V. S. v. 35 Bottles of CeKelp and a Number of 
Circulars.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C.
No. 16649.   Sample No. 2656-H.)
LIBEL FILED :    On or about July 5,1945, Southern District of West Virginia. 
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   By the Dental Research Co., from St. Petersburg, Fla.   The
Kelp and some of the circulars were shipped on or about February 15, 1945,
and the other circulars were shipped at earlier dates.
PRODUCT: 35 bottles, each containing 500 5-grain tablets, of CeKelp at Hunting- 
ton, W. Va.; also a number of circulars entitled, "Goiter," "Arthritis," "The 
Anemias," "The Common Cold," and "Ce-Kelp in Sickness and Health." Exami- 
nation snowed that the product consisted essentially of compressed powdered 
kelp.
LABEL IN PART : (Bottles) "CeKelp a Vegetable Sea Food Kelp." 
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Misbranding, Section 403 (j), the article purported to 
be and was represented as a food for special dietary uses by reason of its min- 
eral content; but its label failed to bear, as required by the regulations, the 
names of the specific minerals and a statement of the minimum daily require- 
ments of each mineral furnished by a specified quantity of the article when 
consumed during a period of 1 day.
The article was also alleged to be misbranded under the provisions of the 
law applicable to drugs, as reported in notices of judgment on drugs and 
devices. 
DISPOSITION:    August'8, 1945.    No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.