2349. Misbranding of Tropiodin  Colloidal Iodine   (jelly paste form and liquid
form)  and misbranding of Chloro-Iodine.    U. S. v. 45 Jars. etc.    (F. D. C.
No. 21972.   Sample Nps. 38897-H'to 38899-H, incl.)
LIBEL FILED:   December 16,1946, Eastern District of Wisconsin.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: 9 jars of the Tropiodin Colloidal Iodine i jelly paste form)
were secured from Albert B. Trencavel, doing business as the Neodyne Com-
pany, Chicago, 111., and transported from Chicago to Pewaukee, Wis., in the
automobile of Jack H. Schmutzler during the month of July 1946. All other
jars of the product were shipped by M. T. Edwards, under the direction
of Albert B. Trencavel, doing business as the Neodyne Company, from Ash-
land, Va., to Pewaukee, Wis., on or about September 9, 1946. The Tropiodin
Colloidal Iodine (liquid form) and the Chloro-Iodine were purchased by Jack
H. Schmutzler from Albert B. Trencavel, doing business as the Tropiodin
Company, Chicago, 111., and transported from Chicago to Pewaukee in the
automobile of Jack H. Schmutzler on or about October 31,1946. A quantity of
printed matter relating to the products was shipped by Albert B. Trencavel,
senior trustee and president of the Trencavel Company, Chicago, 111., from
Chicago to Jack H. Schmutzler, Pewaukee, Wis., on or about July 23 and
September 13,1946.
PRODUCT: 68 jars of Tropiodin Collodial Iodine (jelly paste form), 153 bottles of
Tropiodin Collodial Iodine (liquid form), and 177 bottles of Chloro-Iodine
at Pewaukee, Wis., together with 1,075 copies of a circular entitled "Tropiodin,"
400 blotters bearing the words "Directions for use of Tropiodin," and 300
circulars entitled "(Non-Specific) Chloro-Iodine." The jars were 1-, 2y2-,
and 4-ounce sizes, and the bottles were 4-, 8-, and 16-fluid ounce sizes. Analysis
of the Tropiodin Colloidal Iodine products showed that they consisted chiefly
of water, starch, iodine, and potassium iodide-; and that the Chloro-Iodine
consisted chiefly of glycerin, iodine, potassium and sodium iodides and chlo-
rides, and water.
NATURE OF CHARGE:    Tropiodin Colloidal Iodine (liquid form and jelly paste
form).    Misbranding, Section 502  (a), certain statements in the circulars    (
entitled "Tropiodin" and in the blotters were false and misleading.   These    V
would be efficacious in the treatment of mastitis, contagious abortion, sterility,
Johne's disease, and infections in goats and cows; that they would be ef-
fective for cuts, sores, swollen udders, inflammations, and bruises in animals;
that they would be effective antiseptics and bactericides for intravenous, intra-
muscular, and subcutaneous injections, and for the mucous membrane in gen-
eral ; that when used as directed the articles would be effective in destroying
disease-producing germs; that they would be effective in combating inflam-
mation and in detoxifying tissues and body fluids; that they would promote
toxin removal by deeply stimulating the lymphatic system; that they would
be effective in reducing fever and would interfere with the progress of disease;
that they would be efficacious in the treatment of infections in general and
diseases due to improper nutrition, feed conditions, or inflammation; that the
articles when used as directed would be efficacious in the treatment of acute
and chronic mastitis in cows and goats; that they would be efficacious in the
treatment of pneumonia in cows and bulls, shipping fever, milk fever, white
scours, sterility, toxic infections, and inflammatory and bacterial conditions;
that the articles when used as directed would be efficacious in the treatment
of endometritis, cervicitis, vaginitis, Brucella abortus, Trichomonas, Coryne-
bacteria infection, cystic degeneration of the ovaries, and pyometra; that they
would be efficacious in the treatment of various causes of abortion and sterility;
that they would be efficacious in the treatment and eradication of trichomonia-
sis in cattle, and in the treatment of wooden tongue and timber tongue in
cases of actinomycosis. The articles when used as directed would not be ef-
fective in the treatment of the diseases, conditions, and symptoms stated and
implied. Further misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements on the
label of the Tropiodin Colloidal Iodine (liquid form) were false and mislead-
ing, since they represented and suggested that the article was effective in the
treatment in animals of inflammatory processes and infections in general,
mastitis, pneumonia, white scours, off-feed conditions, and other infections.
The article was not effective in the treatment of such conditions in animals.
Chloro-Iodine. Misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements in the
circular entitled "(Non-Specific) Chloro-Iodine" were false and misleading.
These statements represented and suggested that the article would be effective
as an internal and external remedy for better animal health; that when used
as directed it would be efficacious in the treatment of infections associated with
staphylococci, streptococci, Corynebacteria, abortion bacilli, trichomonads,
nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and other equally virulent and destructive or-
ganisms ; that it would be effective as an antiseptic, germicide, and vermicide,
and as a curative agent in specific diseases; that it would ward off ailments
which disastrously ravage animal flesh; that it would be effective in preventing
and combating disease in livestock, in preventing contamination and blood poi-
son setting in, and in warding off infection caused by disease germs attacking the
body; that it would inhibit sepsis; that when used as directed it would be
inimical to all pathogenic organisms that infect the animal body; that when
used as directed it would be efficacious in the treatment of mastitis, contagious
abortion, sterility, and Johne's disease (paratuberculosis); that it would be
effective in the eradication of disease and would maintain resistance to disease;
that it would be effective as a prophylactic and healer and as a disinfectant for
open sores and inflammatory conditions, abscesses, carbuncles, skin infections of
all kinds, and the mucous membrane in general; that it would be effective against
all infections of the eye and of the entire genital tract; that it would be effective
as a dewormer for goats, sheep, and hogs, and as a bactericide in dysentery of
animals; that it would be effective in entirely deworming animals; that it was a
specific in destroying the causative germs of dysentery, in eradicating the irri-
tation and inflammation of the intestines, and in stopping diarrhea; that it
would be a curative and prophylactic for warding off mastitis, milk fever,
dysentery, off-feed conditions, and diseases that originate from improper
feeding and bacterial and parasitic invasion; that it would be effective in con-
trolling sterility in cows; that it would be efficacious in the treatment of wooden
tongue, timber tongue, endometritis, cervicitis* vaginitis following Brucella
abortus (Bang's disease), Trichomonas, and Corynebacteria infection. The
article when used as directed would not be effective in the treatment of the
diseases, conditions, and symptoms stated and implied.
DISPOSITION :   August 11,1947.   Default decree of condemnation and destruction.
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