NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1099.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OF FLA TORINO EXTRACT.
At the May term of court, 1910, the United States Attorney for 
the Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon the report by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, filed information in the District Court of the 
United States against the St. Louis Coffee & Spice Mills, a corpora- 
tion, of St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by it, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about November 8, 1909, from the State 
of Missouri into the State of Kansas of a quantity of a flavoring 
extract which was misbranded. The product was labeled: " Nectar 
Brand Purity Strength Flavor. Vanilla, Vanillin, Coumarin, Sugar 
Color St. Louis Coffee & Spice Mills, St. Louis, Mo."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department showed 
the product to contain no extract derived from the vanilla bean in 
any appreciable quantity, but that it was a highly dilute alcoholic 
solution of vanillin and coumarin
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containing also sugar and caramel. 
Misbranding was alleged in the information in that the use of the 
word " Vanilla " upon the label of the product was false and mislead- 
ing and calculated to deceive the purchaser into the belief that the 
article contained an extract derived from the vanilla bean; and fur- 
ther, in that the article was an imitation of and was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of a product containing among other 
ingredients extract of vanilla.
On May 2, 1911, the defendant pleaded nolo contendere and was 
fined $5 and costs.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 89, 1911.
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