F. & D. No. 3324.
I. S. No. 19464-c.	
Issued March 8,1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2047.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drags Act.)
MISBRANDING OF LEMON FLAVOR.
On March. 22, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern?
District of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of?
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said?
district an information against Aaron Blumenthal, Joseph Blumen-?
thal, Abraham Blumenthal, Jacob Blumenthal, Moses Blumenthal,?
and Meyer Blumenthal, doing business under the name of Blumenthal?
Bros., a copartnership, Philadelphia, Pa., alleging shipment by them,?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 17, 1911,?
from the State of Pennsylvania into the State of North Carolina, of?
a quantity of lemon flavor which was misbranded. The product was?
labeled: "Blumenthal Bros. 257 N. Third St. Philadelphia. Justrite?
Lemon Flavor Citral and Color Added Guaranteed by Blumenthal?
Bros, under the Food and Drugs Act June 30,1906. Serial No. 2031.?
Manufacturers and Importers of Flavoring Extracts, Essential Oils?
Harmless Colors and Sundries."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of?
this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity at?
15.6? C, 0.9076; alcohol, per cent by volume, 61.66; methyl alcohol,?
none; solids (grams per 100 cc), 0.06; lemon oil by precipitation,?
0.50 per cent; lemon oil by rotation, 0.53 per cent; citral (Hiltner?
method), 0.36 per cent; color, coal-tar dye, Naphthol Yellow S, S. & J.?
No. 4. Sample was not a lemon flavor but a terpeneless lemon?
extract containing a little oil of lemon and artificially colored. Mis??
branding was alleged in the information for the reason that the labels?
of the product bore a statement regarding it and the ingredients and?
substances containing it which was false and misleading in that each?
bottle of the product was labeled as set forth above by which label it?
was represented that the product was a lemon flavor, whereas, in?
truth and in fact, it was not a lemon flavor for the reason that lemon?
flavor should contain 5 per cent in volume of lemon oil, while in truth
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and in fact the product did not contain 5 per cent in volume of lemon?
oil, but contained approximately one-half of 1 per cent of lemon oil.?
On May 29, 1912, the defendants entered a plea of guilty to the?
information and the court imposed a fine of $1.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON., D. C, November SO, 1912.
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