JB\ & D. No.  013.
I. S. No. 20056-a.	
Issued January 10,  1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1220.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food rnd Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF LEMON OIL.
On July 31, .1911, the United States Attorney for the Southern?
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of?
Agriculture, filed information in the Circuit Court of the United?
States for said district against Heine & Co., a corporation, alleging?
shipment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about?
February 3, 1909, from the State of New York into the State of?
New Jersey, of a quantity of lemon oil which was adulterated and?
misbranded. The product was labeled: " Heine & Co. Leipsig, Groba,?
Riesa, New York Grasse, Oil of Lemon-Calabrian ^ lb. Germany.?
Guar, by Serial No. 2606 Heine & Co.    14 Piatt St. N. Y."
Analysis of a sample of said product made by the Bureau of?
Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture showed?
the following results: Specific gravity, 15.6? C, 0.8569; citral, 3.7 per?
cent; pinene, absent; alcohol, at least 2.25 per cent; oil -4- alcohol pres??
ent?polarization 20? C, 59.1, refraction 20? C, 1.4726; original oil?
after removal of alcohol?polarization 20? C., 58.7, refraction 20? C.,?
1.4745; 10 per cent distillate?polarization 20? C, 53.1, refraction?
20? C, 1.4723; distillation in vacuum, 10 per cent residue, polariza??
tion 20? C, 6.2, refraction 20? C, 1.4912. Adulteration was alleged?
for the reason that certain substances other than oil of lemon, to wit.?
among others, alcohol, had been mixed with said article so as to re??
duce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had?
been substituted in part therefor. Misbranding was alleged for the?
reason that said product was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the?
purchaser thereof, in that the label bore a statement regarding the?
article and the ingredients contained therein, which was false and?
misleading, in that it represented the product to be oil of lemon when?
in fact it was not oil of lemon but an adulterated and mixed product?
consisting in part of alcohol and other substances foreign to oil of?
lemon; and further because said article was an imitation of and?
offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, to wit,?
oil of lemon, when in fact it was not oil of lemon.
On October 5, 1911, the defendant pleaded guilty and sentence was
suspended.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 28,1911.
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