P. & £>. No. 165?.
S. No. -586.	
Issued May 13, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1315.
(Giyen pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF ICE CREAM CONES:
On July 15, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Western Dis??
trict of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricul??
ture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district?
a libel praying condemnation and forfeiture of 20 crates of ice cream?
cones in the possession of the Kansas & Missouri Storage Co., Kansas?
City, Mo. The product was labeled: " Eagle Manufacturing Com??
pany, Inc.?Cones?Baltimore, Md.?Guaranteed by the Eagle Mfg.?
Co., under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial No. 4067.?
This box contains 100 cones.?Must be kept in a dry place.?To open?
box cut under this lid on three sides."
Analysis of a sample of said product made by the Bureau of?
Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture showed?
it to contain borax. The libel alleged that the product, after ship??
ment by the Eagle Manufacturing Co., Baltimore, Md., from the?
State of Maryland into the State of Missouri, remained in the origi??
nal unbroken packages, and was adulterated in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906,, because it contained an added?
poisonous and deleterious ingredient, to wit, boric acid, which ren??
dered said product injurious to health, and was therefore liable to?
seizure- for confiscation.
On November 30, 1910, the case coming on for hearing, and no?
one having appeared as claimant, the court found the product adul??
terated, as alleged in the libel, and entered a decree, condemning and?
forfeiting it to the United States, and ordered its destruction by the
marshal.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 23, 1912.
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