(N. J. 74.)
MISBRANDING OF MAPLE SIRUP.
(AS TO  PRESENCE  OP CANE-SUGAR SIRUP.)
In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Food and 
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and of regulation 6 of the rules and 
regulations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on 
the 25th of January, 1908, in the district court of the United States 
for the district of Oregon, in a prosecution by the United States 
against the Pacific Coast Syrup Company, a corporation of San 
Francisco, Cal., for violation of section 2 of the aforesaid act in ship- 
ping and delivering for shipment from. Oregon to Washington an 
adulterated and misbranded sirup, that is to say, a sirup contained 
in cans labeled " Toboggan Maple Syrup, Pacific Coast Syrup Co., 
San Francisco, Cal. Refineries San Francisco, Cal., Seattle, Wash.," 
which was a mixture of maple sirup and cane-sugar sirup, the de- 
fendant having entered a plea of guilty, the court imposed upon it a 
fine of $25.
The facts in the case were as follows:
On December 13, 1907, an inspector of the Department of Agri- 
culture purchased from the Pomeroy Mercantile Company, Pomeroy, 
Wash., samples of sirup labeled " Toboggan Maple Syrup, Pacific 
Coast Syrup Co., San Francisco, Cal. Refineries San Francisco, 
Cal., Seattle, Wash." A small, inconspicuous supplemental label 
on the side of the can stated that the product contained nothing but 
pure maple sugar and pure granulated white sugar blended. One 
of the samples of this sirup was subjected to analysis in the Bureau 
of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, and 
the following results were obtained and stated:
Total solids (percent) 
69.3
Direct polarization (°V. at 20° C.) 
+59.0
Invert polarization (°V. at 20° C.) 
—22.2
Invert polarization  (°V. at 87° C.) 
0.0
Sucrose  (Clerget)   (percent) 
61.20
Glucose 
None.
Reducing sugar before inversion (per cent) 
8.15
Ash, total (percent) 
0.20
Ash—water-soluble (percent) 
0.12
Ash—water-insoluble   (percent) 
O.08
Alkalinity   of   water-soluble   ash   (cc   N/10   hydrochloric
acid per gram) 
0.14
Alkalinity of water-insoluble ash   (cc N/10 hydrochloric
acid per gram) 
0.16
Ratio of insoluble ash to soluble ash 
1. 63
Winton's lead number 
0.38
In the opinion of the Department of Agriculture, maple sirup is 
sirup made by the evaporation of maple sap or by the solution of 
maple concrete, and contains not more than thirty-two (32) per cent 
of water and not less than forty-five hundredths (0.45) per cent of 
maple sirup ash.
The analysis disclosed that the product contained considerable 
quantities of cane-sugar sirup. It was apparent that the sirup was 
not a maple sirup as stated on the principal label, but was a mixture 
of maple sirup and cane-sugar sirup, and therefore adulterated and 
misbranded within the meaning of sections 7 and 8 of the act.
The Secretary of Agriculture having on September 3,1908, afforded 
the manufacturers an opportunity to SIIOAV any fault or error in the 
aforesaid analysis, and they having failed to do so, the facts were 
duly reported to the Attorney-General and the case referred to the 
United States attorney for the district of Oregon, who filed an infor- 
mation against the said Pacific Coast Syrup Company, with the result 
hereinbefore stated.
F. L. DUNLAP, 
GEO. P. MCCABE, 
Board of Food and Drug Inspection. 
Approved:
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 16, 1909.