F. & D. No. 3515.
S. No. 1306	
Issued July 13,1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1524.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On or about March 7, 1912, the United States Attorney for the?
Southern District of Illinois filed in the District Court of the United?
States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of?
90 barrels of so-called sugar vinegar remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages and in possession of Charles J. Off & Co., a cor??
poration, Peoria, 111., alleging that the product had been shipped, on?
or about September 11, 1911, by the A. Braun Manufacturing Co.,?
St. Louis, Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the?
State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. Upon one end of each of said barrels?
appeared the following brand and label: "Manufactured for Charles J.?
Off & Co., Peoria, Ills., 49 Sugar 49 vinegar." Adulteration was?
charged in the libel for the reason that the product consisted wholly?
or in part of distilled vinegar which had been packed and mixed in?
said barrels in imitation of sugar vinegar, for which it had been sub??
stituted wholly or in part, whereby inferiority was concealed. Mis??
branding was alleged for the reason that the barrels containing the?
product each had attached and fixed thereto a brand, label, and device?
which bore a statement regarding said article of food and the ingre??
dients or substances contained therein which was false and misleading?
in that each of said brands, labels, and devices purported and declared,?
and in substance and in fact did declare, that each of said barrels?
contained an article of food known as sugar vinegar when in truth and?
in fact said product .consisted in whole or in part of distilled vinegar?
made in imitation of sugar vinegar, and in that said product was an?
imitation of and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of sugar?
vinegar when in truth and in fact it was not sugar vinegar but an?
imitation thereof.
On March 25, 1912, the Charles J. Off & Co., claimant, Peoria, 111.,?
having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to a decree?
of condemnation and forfeiture, such judgment was entered and it
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was further ordered that upon presentation of bond in conformity?
with section 10 of the act, fixed by the court at $1,000, and payment?
of the costs by the claimant, the 80 barrels of the product that had?
been seized should be released and delivered to the claimant.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C.; May 8, 1912.
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