NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 996.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF TURMERIC.
At the March term of court, 1911, the United States Attorney for 
the Southern District of New York, acting upon the report by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, filed information in the Circuit Court of the 
United States against Lehn & Fink, a corporation, of New York, N. Y., 
alleging shipment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about September 13, 1909, from the State of New York into the 
State of Virginia, of a certain article of food, commercially known as 
"Turmeric," which was adulterated and misbranded. The product 
was labeled: "Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 
1906. Guaranteed Serial No. 2. Pad. Curcumae Pulp. Powd. 
Turmeric.    Lehn & Fink.    Wholesale Druggist, New York."
Analysis of the product made by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
Department showed it to contain wheat starch or wheat flour and 
10.74 per cent calcium sulphate. The information therefore alleged 
Adulteration of the product in that cereal flour and calcium sulphate 
had been substituted in part for the article turmeric. Misbranding 
was alleged in that the label stated the article to be powdered tur- 
meric, which led the purchaser to believe that the product was pure 
turmeric, and the statement on the label was therefore such as to 
deceive or mislead the purchaser.
On April 17, 1911, the defendant corporation pleaded guilty, and 
sentence was suspended by the court.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 28, 1911.
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