NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1104.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF COMPOUND VANILLA
FLAVOR.
On March 15, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon the report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for the 
said district a libel praying condemnation and forfeiture of one keg 
of compound vanilla flavor in the possession of N. Terzis, St. Louis, 
Mo. The product was labeled: "Compound Vanilla Flavor XX 
Star Extract Works—Importers and Manufacturers of Essential 
Oils, Flavoring Extracts and Supplies, 205 Fulton St., New York. 
Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. U. S. 
Serial No. 5187. M. D.—X. Terzis, 4964 Delmar St., St. Louis, Mo. 
71633—Big Four—East St. Louis 3-6."
Analysis of samples from said consignment, made by the Bureau 
of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
showed the following results: Alcohol, 22 per cent; methyl alcohol, 
absent; vanillin, 1.18 per cent; coumarin, 0.14 per cent; vanilla resins, 
none perceptible; Winton lead number, 0.09 per cent; coloring mat- 
ter, small amount of caramel indicated. The libel alleged that the 
said vanilla flavor, after transportation from New York into Mis- 
souri, remained in the original unbroken package, and was adulter- 
ated and misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, June 
30, 1906, and was therefore liable to seizure for confiscation. Adul- 
teration was alleged for the reason that the said product was not 
vanilla flavor or vanilla extract, but that a substance consisting of 
vanillin, coumarin, and dilute alcohol had been mixed and packed 
with said product so as to- reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its 
quality and strength and substituted wholly or in part for said 
article, and for the further reason that the said product had been
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artificially colored in a manner whereby its inferiority was concealed. 
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the label represented 
said product as a compound vanilla flavor, when in fact it was not 
a compound vanilla flavor, but an imitation thereof, and was there- 
fore false and misleading, and calculated to mislead and deceive the 
purchaser of said product.
On June 12, 1911, the said cause coming on to be heard and no 
person appearing as claimant, the court found that the said product 
was adulterated and misbranded as alleged in the libel, and that the 
United States was entitled to a decree of condemnation as in the libel 
prayed for. Accordingly, a decree was entered on that day con- 
demning and forfeiting the product to the United States, and order- 
ing its destruction by the marshal.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 30, 1911.
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