NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1040.
(Given pursuant to section i of the Food and Drugs Act.)'
ADULTERATION   AND   MISBRANDING   OF   SPECIAL   WILD   CHERRY
SODA WATER FLAVOR.
On April 25, 1911, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, acting upon the report by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed information in the District Court of the United States for 
said district, against the Blue Seal Supply Co., a corporation, alleg- 
ing shipment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on De- 
cember 6, 1910, from the State of Massachusetts into the State of 
Minnesota, of a package containing a product denominated " Special 
Wild Cherry Soda Water Flavor." The label on the package con- 
tained the statement: " Extra concentrated special wild cherry soda 
water flavor."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department showed 
the product to be composed of benzaldehyde and alcohol. Adultera- 
tion was alleged in the first count of the information for the reason 
that an artificial product composed of benzaldehyde and alcohol had 
been mixed and packed with the article so as to lower, reduce, and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and because an artificial 
substance, to wit, benzaldehyde and alcohol, had been substituted for 
the genuine wild cherry flavor which said article purported to con- 
tain. Misbranding was alleged in the second count of the informa- 
tion for the reason that the statement on the label, to wit, extra con- 
centrated special wild cherry soda water flavor, was false and mis- 
leading in that it conveyed the impression that said product was com- 
posed of the genuine extract or flavor of wild cherry, whereas said 
article was an artificial product composed largely of benzaldehyde 
and  alcohol,  and  contained no genuine extract or flavor of wild
cherry.
On May 1, 1911, the defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $'?5.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 4, 1911.
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