P. & D. No. 4074.
I. S. No. 1566-d.	
Issued February 28, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF
JUDGMENT NO. 2001.
(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 James L. Appley, Canterbury, Conn., alleging?
shipment by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or?
about September 7, .1911, .from the State of Connecticut into the?
State of Ehode Island of a quantity of milk which was adulterated.?
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 con??
tained 11,000,000 organisms per cubic centimeter developing on plain?
agar at 37? C- after 2 days' incubation; 8,000,000 organisms per?
cubic centimeter developing on litmus lactose agar at.. 25? C. after?
2 days' incubation, 2,000,000 of which were of the acid type; 10,000?
gas-producing organisms in bile fermentation tubes after 2 days'?
incubation. Total solids, 10.38 per cent; fat, 3.20 per cent; solids?
not fat, 7.18 per cent. Adulteration of the product was alleged 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 22,1912.
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