United States v. 29 Bottles

MOORE, District Judge.

This is a suit by the United States of America under the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act of June 25th, 1938, 21 U.S.C. A. § 301 et seq., to condemn twenty-nine bottles more or less of a product called “Ocean-Lax”. The libel charges adulteration and misbranding. The articles were seized in the city of Philadelphia, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the hands of Thomas Martindale and Company, and are still in this District.

Motion has been filed by Mineralized Foods, Inc., claimant of the products seized, for an order to remove the case for trial to the District…