F.  & D. No. 4089.
I. S. No. 13108-d.	
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United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2012.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ABULTEEATION 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 Lemuel Rattner, New London, 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?
Rhode Island of a quantity of milk which was adulterated..
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: This product con??
tained 20,000,000 organisms per cubic centimeter developing on?
plain agar at 37? C. after 2 days' incubation; 20,000,000 organisms?
per cubic centimeter developing on litmus lactose agar at 25? C.?
after 2 days' incubation, 10,000,000 of which were of the acid type;?
1,000 gas-producing organisms per cubic centimeter in bile fermenta??
tion tubes; 1,000,000 streptococci per cubic centimeter. Adultera??
tion 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 19, 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, T>. C, November 2891912.
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