F. & D. No. 3402.
S. No. 1269.	
Issued February 8, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1915.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drags Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF YINEGAR.
On February 9, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern?
District of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said?
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 15 barrels and?
15 half barrels of vinegar remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages and in possession of the Swan, Sullins & Brandau Co.,?
Knoxville, Tenn., alleging that the product had been shipped during?
the month of October, 1911, by the J. Weller Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,?
and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of Tennessee,?
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: (One end of barrel)?
"The J. Weller Company, Distributor, Apple Vinegar, Cincinnati,?
Ohio." The other ends of the barrels were labeled in much smaller?
type: "Fermented apple juice pressed from apple waste, Sept.?
1911."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason?
that said product did not contain apple vinegar but consisted wholly?
or in part of distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid with added ash?
and foreign substances high in reducing sugar, which had been sub??
stituted for apple vinegar. Misbranding was alleged for the reason?
that the label and brand upon the product were false and misleading,?
in that the barrels did not contain apple vinegar, but on the other?
hand contained a product which consisted of distilled vinegar or?
dilute acetic acid with added ash and foreign substances.
On April 12, 1912, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was?
entered and it was further ordered that the product should be released?
and delivered to the said J. Weller Co., claimant, upon payment of?
the costs of the proceedings and the execution of bond in the sum of?
$250 in conformity with section 10 of the Act.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 11, 1912.
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