\Y. & D. No. 3633.
S. No. 1340.	
Issued February 21,1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 1948.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On April 2, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis??
trict of Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricul??
ture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district,?
a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 11 barrels of vinegar?
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in possession?
of Williamson-Bayless Co., Lexington, Ky., alleging that the product?
had been shipped on February 11, 1911, by Spielmann Bros., Chicago,?
111., and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of?
Kentucky, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: ''Guaranteed?
Cider Vinegar 4 per centum?Purity Vinegar Works?W. Purity?
Vinegar Works?Purity Co.?Pure Cider Vinegar?Canastota, N. Y."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason?
that in each of the barrels another substance than cider vinegar had?
been substituted in part for cider vinegar, to wit, a dilute solution of?
acetic acid or distilled vinegar, which substance had been mixed and?
packed in imitation of cider vinegar in a manner whereby its infe??
riority was concealed. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that?
the product bore a statement regarding the substance contained?
therein which was false and misleading, to wit, the statement, among?
other things, "Guaranteed Cider Vinegar", and also "Pure Cider?
Vinegar", which statements and each of them were false and mis??
leading, in that they represented the contents of each of the bar??
rels to be cider vinegar, that is to say, vinegar made from the juice?
of apples, whereas in fact and in truth the product was a dilute so??
lution of acetic acid or distilled vinegar mixed and packed in imita??
tion of cider vinegar.
On July 26, 1912, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was?
entered, and it was further ordered that the product should be sold?
by the United States marshal. On October 3, 1912, an amended?
judgment was entered ordering the release of the product to said?
Spielmann Bros., claimant, upon payment of all costs of the action?
and the execution of bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with?
section 10 of the act.
W. M. HATS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 14, 1912.
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