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Show Cure-Alls Given The Death Blow Fines ranging from ?25 to 25Q were imposed under: the-. food and drugs act on shippers who had aent into interstate commerce, adulterated adulter-ated or mis-branded foods and feeds, according to service and regulatory announcements No. 152 issued recently re-cently by the bureau of chemistry, , United States department of agriculture. agri-culture. The list includes olive oil, butter, salmon, candy, eggs, oysters, catsup, flour and cottonseed meal. Eight other shipments, of foods vt-n.-destroyed under decrees of condemnation condem-nation and fortfeiture and nineteen shipments were released On bond on condition that the products would be relabeled to comply with the requirements require-ments of the law. Six seizures were made under the Sherley amendment to the food and drugs act which prohibits the use of false and fraudulent claims on medicinal medi-cinal preparations. The users of Mc-Jraw's Mc-Jraw's Herbs of Youth, Oil of Life and Liquid Herbs were promised on the labels relief for all sorts of ailments ail-ments ranging from nerve diseases to colds, but the government charged that the ingredients of these medicines, medi-cines, as revealed by analysis could not produce the results claimed and the court ordered the destruction of the shipments. .. - . . Boquette's Family Remedy, " which was found to contain 3 per cent of magnesium sulphate, 2Vi per cent of sodium nitrate, a small . amount of extractives and 93 per cent water, was declared by its manufacturer to be capable of relieving rheumatism and tuberculosis. A shipment w. s seized and a charge of misbrandir.fr brought by the government. No . claimant appearing, "the court ordered order-ed the product destroyed. A shipment of Parry's Vcgelab' ; Compound which had been seized wr . released under bond on condition that the false and misleading; .statements as to its curative effects would be corrected. Cocoa butter, petrolatum, boric ncid, sodium sulphate and a little flnur were thp. Ingredients of 0ran?c Blossom Suppositories for which fraudulent claims were made, and this shipment was also ordered, de-stoyed de-stoyed by the court. Edgerton's Salt Brick was declared declar-ed by the manufacturer to prevent hog cholera but the analysis found no ingredient or combination of ingredients in-gredients capable-rof producing this effect and the p&duct"was destroyed by order of the cow i t. Gilds' Germicide, it was found, did rot contain anything of a germicidal -r antiseptic nature and' "that, too, was ordered destroyed. , Penalties were imposed on five stock feed shippers, in amounts froia ?100 to ?250. The substitution of peanut hulls, rice hulls and cot.t.i seed hulls for more nutritive materials, mater-ials, false claims as to protein and fiber content, and lack of net weight markings, were some of the charges brought against the shippers. |