NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1015.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF MAPLE SUGAR.
On January 31, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon the report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed information in the District Court of the United 
States for said district against the Brokaw Merchandise Co., a cor- 
poration, alleging shipment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about May 14, 1910, from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Illinois, of a box containing, among other things, three 
1-pound cakes of a product denominated maple sugar. The product 
in question bore no label or brand, other than the words " Blended 
Cane and Maple Sugar," which were faintly moulded in the cakes, 
but was sold and invoiced as maple sugar.
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry showed the product to con- 
sist of a mixture of cane and maple sugar. Adulteration was alleged 
for the reasons that said product was sold and invoiced as maple 
sugar, when, in fact, another substance, known as cane sugar, had 
been mixed and packed with said product so as to reduce, or lower, 
or injuriously affect its quality or strength; and a substance known as 
cane sugar had been substituted in part for said product, designated 
and sold for maple sugar. Misbranding was alleged for the reasons 
that said article was sold and invoiced as maple sugar, when, in fact, 
said product was an imitation of and was sold under the distinctive 
name of another article, to wit, maple sugar, when in fact said 
product was not maple sugar, but a mixture of cane sugar and maple 
sugar, and because said product was not labeled, branded, or tagged 
so as to plainly indicate that it was a compound or blend of cane and 
maple sugar, and the words " compound, imitation, or blend " were 
not plainly stated on said package in which said product was sold.
When the case came on for hearing a nolle prosequi was entered as 
to the count alleging Adulteration of the sugar, and the defendant 
pleaded guilty to the count alleging misbranding, and was fined $10
and costs.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1,1911.
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