NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1126.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OP VANILLA EXTRACT, LEMON EXTRACT, ESSENCE 
OF BITTER ALMOND, ESSENCE OF WINTERGREEN, ESSENCE OF 
PEPPERMINT.
On September 7, 1910, the Christiani Drug Company, Inc., of the 
city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, offered for sale and 
sold within said District to John F. Earnshaw, an inspector of this 
Department, certain food products labeled as follows: (On carton) 
" Two ounces, Christiani's Premier Brand Extract of vanilla; con- 
tains 60 per cent. Alcohol. Christiani Standard of quality, Manu- 
factured by Christiani Drug Company, Inc., 426 Ninth St., N. W., 
638 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W., and Union Station, Washington, D. C. 
(Guaranty Legend) Serial No. 2318." (On carton) "Two ounces, 
Christiani Premier Brand Extract of Lemon, contains 92 per cent. 
Alcohol, Christiani Drug Company, Inc., 426 Ninth St., N. W., 638 
Pennsylvania Ave., N. W., and Union Station, Washington, D. C, 
(Guaranty Legend) Serial No. 2318." The product marked I. S. No. 
5995-c was labeled: (On carton) " Two ounces, Christiani's Premier 
Brand Essence of Bitter Almond. Contains 77 per cent. Alcohol. 
Christiani Drug Company, Inc., 429 Ninth St., N. W., 638 Pennsyl- 
vania Ave., N. W., Union Station, Washington, D. C, (Guaranty 
Legend) Serial No. 2318." The product marked I. S. No. 5996-c was 
labeled: (On carton) "Two ounces Christiani's Premier Brand Es- 
sence of Wintergreen; contains 91 per cent. Alcohol. Christiani 
Standard of Quality. Manufactured by Christiani Drug Company, 
Inc., 429 Ninth St., N. W., 638 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W., and Union 
Station, Washington, D. C, (Guaranty Legend) Serial No. 2318." 
The product marked I. S. No. 5997-c was labeled: (On carton) " Two 
ounces Christiani's Premier Brand Essence of Peppermint; contains 
86 per cent, of Alcohol. Christiani Standard of quality. Manu- 
factured by Christiani Drug Company, Inc., 429 Ninth St., N. W., 
638 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W., and Union Station, Washington, 
D. C, (Guaranty Legend) Serial No. 2318."
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These products, which, for purposes of identification, were desig- 
nated by said inspector as I. S. Nos. 5993-c, 5994-c, 5995-c, 5996-c, 
and 5997-c, respectively, by which numbers they will be hereinafter 
referred to, were analyzed by the Bureau of Chemistry of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and as the findings of the analysts 
and report thereon indicated that the products were misbranded 
within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, the 
said Christiani Drug Co., Inc., was afforded an opportunity for a 
hearing. As it appeared after hearing held that said sales were 
made in violation of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the facts to the Attorney General with a statement of the evidence 
upon which to base prosecutions. In due course criminal informa- 
tions were filed in the Police Court in the District of Columbia 
against the said Christiani Drug Co., Inc., charging the sales as 
aforesaid, and alleging Misbranding of each of the aforesaid prod- 
ucts on the ground that the labels of each of said products were false 
and misleading and calculated to mislead and deceive the purchaser 
in this, to wit, that each label contained statements as to the amount 
of the contents of the bottle, and content of alcohol, which were false, 
in that the bottles in each case contained a less amount of the prod- 
uct, and a different percentage of alcohol, than that stated on the 
label. Misbranding was further alleged in the case of the lemon ex- 
tract, I. S. No. 5994-c, for the reason that the said label represented 
the product to be an extract of lemon when in fact it was not an 
extract of lemon but a diluted extract of lemon. The five informa- 
tions filed against the defendant company contained a total of eleven 
counts, alleging misbranding as aforesaid.
On June 9, 1911, the said defendant company, through its secre- 
tary, Orlando G. Hall, entered a plea of guilty to each and every 
count of each information; whereupon the court imposed fines 
aggregating $280.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September £0, 1911.
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