F. & D. No. 4116.
I. S. Nos. 12337-d, 13202-d.	
Issued March 8, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2032.
(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 H. Minsk, Colchester, 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.
Analysis of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: (Sample No. 1)?
Total solids, 11.86 per cent; fat, 2.9 per cent; solids not fat, 8.96 per?
cent. (Sample No. 2) This product contained 7,000,000 organisms?
per cubic centimeter developing on plain agar at 37? C. after 2 days'?
incubation; 200,000 organisms per cubic centimeter developing on?
litmus lactose agar at 25? C. after 2 days' incubation, all of which?
were of the alkaline type; 1,000 gas-producing organisms per cubic?
centimeter in bile fermentation tubes; 1,000,000 streptococci per cubic?
centimeter. Adulteration of the product was alleged in the informa??
tion for the reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit,?
fat, had been wholly or in part abstracted, and in that it did then and?
there consist 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, D. C, November 27,1912.
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