(N.   J.   130.)
ADULTERATION  AND   MISBRANDING  OF  LEMON EXTRACT.
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 regu??
lations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on the?
9th day of June, 1909, in the circuit court of the United States for?
the eastern district of Louisiana, in a prosecution against Albert?
Mackie Grocer Company (Limited), a corporation of New Orleans,?
La. (F. & D. No. 482), for violation of section 2 of the aforesaid?
act in shipping and delivering for shipment from Louisiana to?
Mississippi, an adulterated and misbranded lemon extract, the said?
Albert Mackie Grocer Company (Limited), entered a plea of guilty,?
whereupon the court imposed upon it a fine of $10 and costs of the?
prosecution.
The facts in the case were as follows:
On April 7, 1908, an inspector of the United States Department of?
Agriculture purchased from N. B. Whalen, McComb City, Miss., a?
sample of lemon extract, labeled "McE. Brand Flavoring Extract?
of Lemon. Albert Mackie Grocer Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La.,"?
which had been manufactured and shipped by the Albert Mackie?
Grocer Company (Limited), from New Orleans, La., to the said-?
dealer on or about August 15, 1907. The sample was analyzed in?
the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agri??
culture, and the following results obtained and stated ?,
Specific gravity (15.5? C.)?
?0.9614
Alcohol by volume (per cent)?
?34.35
Solids (grams per 100 cc)?
?0.46
Lemon oil   (by polarization)   (per cent)?
?0.5
Lemon oil (by precipitation)?
?None.
Color?
?Coal tar.
Lemon extract, as recognized by the Department of Agriculture and?
reputable manufacturers in the United States, is the flavoring extract?
prepared from oil of lemon or from lemon peel, or both, and contains?
not less than 5 per cent by volume of lemon oil.
It was evident that the product was both adulterated and mis-?
branded within the meaning of sections 7 and 8 of the act; adulter??
ated, because a substance had been substituted in whole or in part for?
oil of lemon, and because it was an imitation extract colored with a?
coal-tar dye to give it the color of genuine lemon extract, thereby con??
cealing inferiority; and misbranded, bedause labeled " Extract of?
Lemon " whereas it was not lemon extract.
The Secretary of Agriculture having, on September 30, 1908, af??
forded the manufacturers an opportunity to show any fault or error?
in the aforesaid analysis, and they having failed to do so, the facts?
were reported to the Attorney-General and the case referred to the?
United States attornev for the eastern district of Louisiana, who filed
an information against the Albert Mackie Grocer Compan\T (Lim??
ited), with the result hereinbefore stated.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 10, 1910.