NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1151.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF VINEGAR.
On January 3, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Missouri, acting upon a report from the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel praying condemnatitin and forfeiture of 80 barrels of 
cider vinegar in the possession of the Security Storage Warehouse Co. 
in Kansas City, Mo. The vinegar was labeled: "A. P. Callahan & 
Company, 6% Cider Vinegar 52 Chicago, Ill."
Analysis of a sample of said vinegar by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of the United States Department of Agriculture showed solids 1.54 
per cent, reducing sugar 4 per cent, ash 0.26 per cent, alkalinity of ash 
23.8 per cent, acid 6.23 per cent. The libel alleged that the vinegar, 
after shipment by A. P. Callahan & Co. from the State of Illinois 
into the State of Missouri, remained in the original unbroken pack- 
ages and was adulterated 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 reason that a substance, to wit, 
acetic acid or distilled vinegar, had been substituted wholly or in 
part for the vinegar.
On May 24, 1911, the case coming on for hearing and no person 
having appeared as claimant, the court entered a decree that the 
libel be taken pro confesso for default of answer thereto and con- 
demning and forfeiting said 80 barrels of vinegar to the United States 
and ordered that each of said barrels be properly branded by indorsing 
on the labels of said barrels the word "Imitation" three times as 
large in size as the words "Cider vinegar" appearing upon said labels, 
and that the marshal, after having so marked and branded said 
vinegar, should sell the same at public auction to the highest bidder 
for cash, which order was executed by the sale of the vinegar at 
public auction on June 10, 1911, for $100.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 30, 1911.
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