2389. Misbranding of Spectro-Chrome. U.S. v. Dinshah P. Ghadiali and Dinshah Spectro-Chrome Institute
primary document · 1949
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SUMMARY
Official U.S. FDA Notice of Judgment (case 2389), digitized and hosted by the National Library of Medicine, verified by direct fetch. Names defendants Dinshah P. Ghadiali and Dinshah Spectro-Chrome Institute (Malaga, N.J.); records seven counts of misbranding Spectro-Chrome products shipped from New Jersey to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, and Delaware; records seizure dates September 3, 1942 and July 9, 1945; records a jury trial, verdict of guilty, the Institute fined $12,000 and Ghadiali fined $8,000, one year imprisonment on each of the first three counts with execution suspended, five years' probation, and imposition of sentence on the last four counts suspended; and records that the judgment was affirmed on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals and that the Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari. Court: District of New Jersey. Used as the primary regulatory/court record establishing the case's federal misbranding conviction, sentence, and exhausted appeal.
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The FDA’s own official Notice of Judgment for the criminal misbranding case against Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Dinshah Spectro-Chrome Institute: verdict, sentence, fines, and appellate history, digitized by the National Library of Medicine.