(N. J. 139.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF TANILLA 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?
regulations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on the?
13th day of November, 1909, in the district court of the United States?
for the district of Maryland, in a prosecution by the United States?
against the Interstate Chemical Company, of Baltimore, Md., for?
violation of section 2 of the aforesaid act in shipping and delivering?
for shipment from Maryland to Texas an article of food labeled:?
" Kitchen Queen Vanilla. I. C. Co. Pure Product. Baltimore, Md.,?
U. S. A. Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act of June 30,?
1906. Serial No. 453. Interstate Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md. Our?
name is a guarantee of purity," which was adulterated and mis-?
branded as hereinafter stated, the said Interstate Chemical Company?
having entered a plea of guilty, the court imposed upon it a fine?
of $25.
The facts in the case were as follows:
On April 19, 1909, an inspector of the Department of Agriculture?
purchased from the Waples-Platter Grocery Company, at Fort?
Worth, Tex., a sample of an article of *~od (I. S. No. 24138-a)?
labeled as hereinabove set out, which was part of a shipment made by?
the  Interstate  Chemical  Company  from  Baltimore,  Md.,  to  the
Waples-Platter Grocery Company at Fort Worth, Tex., on or about?
December 15, 1908. The sample was analyzed in the Bureau of Chem??
istry of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the follow??
ing results obtained and stated:
Alcohol, by volume (per cent)?
?25.64
Alcohol, methyl?
?None.
Vanillin  (per cent)?
?0.23
Coumarin?
?None.
Resins?
?None.
Solids  (per cent)?
?37.2
Sucrose (Olerget)   (percent)?
    35.3
Vanilla extract, or flavor, as recognized by reliable manufacturers?
and dealers, is the flavoring extract prepared from vanilla bean and?
contains the soluble matters from not less than 10 grams of the va??
nilla bean to each 100 cc. The analysis of the aforesaid sample?
disclosed that it was not a genuine vanilla extract, but a solution of?
artificial vanillin; hence it was adulterated, within the meaning of?
section 7 of the act, in that artificial vanillin had been substituted?
in part for extract of vanilla bean, thereby reducing and lowering its?
quality and strength, and misbranded, within the meaning of section?
8 of the act, in that the statements on the labels that it was vanilla?
and a pure product were false, misleading, and deceptive.
It appearing from the aforesaid analysis that the article was adul??
terated and misbranded, the Secretary of Agriculture gave notice to?
Waples-Platter Grocery Company, the dealers from whom the sample?
was procured, as well also as to the manufacturer and shipper, Inter??
state Chemical Company, and gave them an opportunity to be heard.?
Interstate Chemical Company being the party solely responsible for?
the adulteration and misbranding of the article and failing to show?
any fault or error in the result of the aforesaid analysis, and it being?
determined that the article was adulterated and misbranded, on Au??
gust 28, 1909, the said Secretary reported the facts and evidence?
(F. & D. No. 822) to the Attorney-General, by whom they were re??
ferred to the United States attorney for the district of Maryland,?
who filed an information against the said Interstate Chemical Com??
pany, with the result hereinbefore stated.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10,1910.