F. & D. No. 2737.
I. S. No. 16617-c.	
Issued May 17, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1366.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF YANILLA EXTRACT.
On November 18,? 1911, the United States Attorney for the Dis??
trict of Maryland, acting upon a report of the Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed information in the District Court of the United States?
for said district against the William Haigh Co., Baltimore, Md.,?
alleging shipment by them, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about October 3, 1910, from the State of Maryland into the?
State of Pennsylvania of a quantity of vanilla extract which was?
adulterated and misbranded. The product was labeled " XXXX?
Vanilla. This vanilla is prepared from high grade and selected vanilla?
beans. Guaranty legend Serial 6632. The Wm. Haigh Co., Manufac??
turing Chemists, 128 S. Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.    *    *    * ".
Analysis of a sample of said product made by the Bureau of Chem??
istry of the United States Department of Agriculture showed the?
following results: "Vanillin, 0.40 per cent; coumarin, absent; lead?
number 0.33; vanilla, slight amount; caramel, slight amount." Adul??
teration was alleged for the reason that a certain substance, to wit,?
vanillin, had been mixed with said article so as to reduce, lower, and?
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the further reason?
that said substance had been substituted in part for said article.?
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the package containing?
the article bore, among other things, a statement that said article?
was vanilla, which said statement was false and misleading in this,?
that the said article was not vanilla, but contained a quantity of?
vanillin.
On November 18^ 1911, the defendant company pleaded guilty and?
was fined $10.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 30, 1912.
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