F. & D. No. 4063.
I. S. No. 2384-d	
Issued February 28, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1990.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On July 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of?
Connecticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture,?
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an?
information against William M. Phillips, Canterbury, Conn., al??
leging shipment by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about September 6, 1911, from the State of Connecticut into?
the State of Rhode Island of a quantity of milk which was adul??
terated.    The product bore no label.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: This product?
contained 10,000,000 organisms per cc developing on plain agar?
at 37? C. after 2 days' incubation; 8,000,000 organisms per cc de??
veloping on litmus lactose agar at 25? C. after 2 days' incubation;?
100,000 gas-producing organisms per cc in bile fermentation tubes;?
100,000 streptococoi per cc. Adulteration of the product was al??
leged in the information for the reason that it consisted in part of?
a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal or vegetable substance.
On July 23, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere?
and the court imposed a fine of $40.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 81, 1912.
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