NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1150.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VANILLA EXTRACT.
On March 25, 1911, the United States Attorney for the District of 
New Jersey, acting upon the report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel 
praying condemnation and forfeiture of one 5-gallon package of a 
product purporting to be vanilla extract in the possession of John 
K. Psichos.
Analysis of samples of said product made by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry of the United States Department of Agriculture showed the fol- 
lowing results: Vanillin 0.80 per cent, coumarin 0.10 per cent, cara- 
mel present. The container was labeled: "XXX Vanilla." The 
libel alleged that the said product, after shipment by the Manhattan 
Importing Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, from Ohio into New Jersey, 
remained in the original unbroken package and was adulterated and 
misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, 
and was, therefore, liable to seizure for confiscation. Adulteration 
was alleged for the reasons that the substance was not pure vanilla 
extract but was a product containing vanillin and coumarin, which 
had been mixed and packed with and substituted for vanilla extract 
in such a manner as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its 
quality and strength, and because the product was colored with cara- 
mel for the purpose of concealing its inferiority. Misbranding was 
alleged because the product was sold under the distinctive name of 
another article, to wit, vanilla, when in fact it was not vanilla, and 
the statement on the label was therefore false and misleading.
On April 20, 1911, the court found the said product to be adulter- 
ated and misbranded, as alleged in the libel, and that the United States 
was entitled to a decree of condemnation, as prayed for, and entered 
a decree condemning and forfeiting the goods to the United States 
and ordering their destruction by the marshal.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 29', 1911.
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