NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1110.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On May 31, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed information in the District Court of the United States for 
said district against the Queen City Cider Vinegar Manufacturing 
Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. The information alleged that the Queen 
City Cider Vinegar Manufacturing Co. sold and delivered for ship- 
ment to the J. Weller Co. on August 23, 1910, 60 barrels of a product 
purporting to be pure cider vinegar, and gave to the said J. Weller 
Co. a guaranty in effect that the product conformed to all pure food 
laws, knowing that the product would be sold or was likely to be 
sold in interstate commerce and traffic. It was alleged further that 
the J. Weller Co., on August 24, 1910, shipped the said 60 barrels 
of vinegar from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Terre Haute, Ind., and that 
the Queen City Cider Vinegar Manufacturing Co. therefore was 
responsible for the shipment and delivery for shipment of the product 
in interstate commerce.
The vinegar was labeled: " The J. Weller Co., Pure Apple Cider 
Vinegar, Guaranteed, Cincinnati, Ohio. Fermented July 10. Made 
by the Queen City Cider Vinegar Co., in. O." Analysis of a sam- 
ple of said product by the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States 
Department of Agriculture showed the following results:
Solids 
2.05
Non   sugar  solids 
1.11
Reducing sugar invert 
. 94
Polarization—direct at 20.5° C 
2. 0
Ash, total 
.2340
Ash, soluble in water 
.184
Ash, insoluble in water 
. 05
Alk. sol. ash cc N/10 acid 100 cc 
cc__ 19. 6
Alk. insol. ash 
cc__    8. 4
Sol. phos. acid, mg per 100 cc 
1. 23
Insol. phos. acid, mg per 100 cc 
9. 2
Acid, as acetic 
3. 79
Fixed acid, as malic 
. 045
Lead precipitate 
Medium.
Color (in 0.5 in. cell) 
degrees, brewer's scales 14.0
Color removed by Fuller's earth 
53.6
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Adulteration was alleged in that a substance, to wit, water, had 
been mixed with the vinegar so as to reduce and lower or injuriously 
affect its quality and strength and further, in that water had been 
substituted in part for pure apple cider vinegar. Misbranding was 
alleged for the reason that the product was represented as a pure 
apple cider vinegar, which was false and misleading and calculated 
to deceive and mislead the purchaser because said product was not a 
pure apple cider vinegar but a dilute mixture of cider vinegar and 
water.
On June 29, 1911, defendant company pleaded guilty and was fined 
$50 and costs, amounting in the aggregate to $65.80.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 31, 1911.
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