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Show PUBLIC WARNED AGAINST FAKES !! Department of Agriculture Is- 9 sues Proclamation People 1 to Look on Infantile Par- alysis Treatment With Suspicion. jj SO-CALLED "CUREl 1 8 Special Instructions Sent to Food and Drug Inspectors to Be Particularly Alert. 8 Washington, July 27. Warning was 1 1 issued to the public today by the de- j f partment of agriculture to look with j j extreme suspicion upon any preparation prepara-tion put on the market and offered for sale as being effective for the treat- j ment of Infantile paralysis. Department officials charged with the enforcement of the foods and I , drugs act, an announcement says, "ex- pect the outbreak of infantile paraly- ; sis will tempt unscrupulous persons ' to offer for sale so called 'cures' or j remedies for this dread disease. They J therefore have issued special instruc- j tioni to food and drug Inspectors to : ; be particularly alert for interstate ! shipment, or importation of medicines, the makers of which allege that they i will cure or alleviate this disease for which at the. present .time no medi-. - nj cinal cure is' known." ' tS ! Inspectors to Collect Samples. .I Inspectors have been instructed to ! collect samples of all medicines found , in interstate commerce and officials ! declare the makers will be vigorously prosecuted whenever the evidence 1 Warrants action under tl. food an1 drugs act. Such remedies offered for import will be refused entry. Government officials have noted that in the past whenever a serious epidemic has existed unscrupulous dealers have preyed upon the fear, or Ignorance, of the public by flooding j the market with worthless, hastily j H prepared concoctions, for which cura- J H tlve properties which have no founda- jj lion whatever in fact are claimed. In j 1 the present Infantile paralysis epl- I demic inspectors already have discov- 1 1 ered shipments of a few such mix- tures. I States Must Watch. I In its warning the department points I out that the federal law does not ap-- "j Ii ply to preparations made and consum- H ' ed wholly within a single state such IB as patent medicines made within New i tt York state and sold in New York City, ( I the center of the epidemic. i j "Persons buying os using a 'rem- ; cdy' made in their own state, there- j f fore," the announcement says, "must i 1 relv on the protection accorded them J by "their local health authorities." |