21517. Misbranding of Gold Bond Sterilseptlc Toilet Powder. U. S. v. 185 
Cans of Gold Bond Sterilseptlc Toilet Powder. Default decree of 
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D\ no. 30736. 
Sample no. 39722-A.)
This case involved a drug product which was represented to be an antiseptic. 
Bacteriological examination showed that it would be of no value as an anti- 
septic.
On July 18, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Maine, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a 
libel praying seizure and condemnation of 185 cans of Gold Bond Sterilseptic 
Toilet Powder at Portland, Maine, alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce, on or about May 9, 1933, by the Gold Bond Sterilizing 
Powder Co., Inc., from New Bedford, Mass., and charging misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this Department showed that it con- 
sisted essentially of small proportions of menthol, borax, methyl salicylate, and 
thymol, and talc. Bacteriological examination showed that the article was of 
no value as an antiseptic.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the fol- 
lowing statements appearing in the labeling were false and misleading: (Can) 
" Sterilseptic * * * Antiseptic Toilet Powder is distinctly in a class by 
itself * * * one of the ' World's Standard Antiseptic Toilet Powders' * * * 
Guaranteed by Gold Bond Sterilizing Powder Co. Under the Food and Drugs 
Act, June 30, 1906. Serial No. 25132" ; (circular) " Sterilseptic * * * pro- 
motes * * * sterilizing of the human skin and membranes * * * A 
scientific triumph * * * it performs the seemingly impossible and renders 
the skin free from bacteria."
On October 24, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.