F. & D.  No.  3220.
I. S. No. 18015-c.	
Issued September 10, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1631.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF PAPRIKA.
At a stated term of the District Court of the United States for the?
Southern District of New York, begun and held in the city of New?
York on the first Tuesday of January, 1912, the United States Attor??
ney for said district, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed in said District Court an information against David?
Rosenzweig, doing business under the firm name and style of Spira &?
Co., New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by him, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, on or about February 2, 1911, from the State?
of New York into the State of Illinois of a consignment of paprika?
which was adulterated. The product was labeled: " 1 Doz. Tin Cans?
Eoyal Paprika. Absolutely the best. Guaranteed Pure. Guaran??
teed by Spira & Co., under Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906.?
Guarantee No. 25298." " Eoyal - Rosen - Paprika Chemisch reines?
Pflanzen-product anerkannt als eines der feinsten Gewurze nach priv.?
Verfahren erzeugt aus den gewahltesten Schoten. Guaranteed by?
Spira & Co. under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial?
No. 25296."
Examination of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chem??
istry of this Department showed the same to contain foreign oil as?
shown by the following analysis: Total ash, 8.14 per cent; ash in??
soluble in 10 per cent HO, 0.75 per cent; ether extract, 16.95 per?
cent; iodine number of ether extract, 116. Adulteration was alleged?
in the information for the reason that a substance, to wit, ash, had?
been mixed and packed with the product so as to reduce, lower, and?
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and it was further adul??
terated in that a substance, to wit, ash, had been substituted in part?
for the product, and further adulterated in that a certain substance,?
to wit, oil, had been substituted in part for the product.
On April 5, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the?
information and the court suspended sentence.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21, 1912.
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