P. & D. No. 3692.
I. S. Nos. 1493-d, 1496-d, 1497-d, 1498-d, 1499-d, and 1500-d.        Issued March 8, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2051.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs lot.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On July 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis??
trict of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricul??
ture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district?
an information against the St. Louis Dairy Co., a corporation, St.?
Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 11, 1911, from the State of?
Illinois into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of milk which was?
adulterated.    The product bore no label.
Analysis of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of?
this Department showed the following results: (Sample No. 1)?
200,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37? C.; 10,000,-?
000 B. coli group; 10,000,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 2) 2,200,000?
bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37? C.; 1,000,000 gas-?
producing organisms; 1,000,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 3)?
9,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37? C.; 1,000,000?
B. coli group; 10,000 streptococci. (Sample No, 4) 20,000,000 bac??
teria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37? C.; 100,000 B. coli group;?
100,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 5) 33,000,000 bacteria per cc,?
plain agar, after 2 days at 37? C; 100,000 B. coli group; 100,000?
streptococci. (Sample No. 6) 32,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar,?
after 2 days at 37? C.; 10,000,000 B. coli group; 10,000, streptococci.?
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the?
reason that it consisted wholly or in large part of filthy, decomposed,?
or putrid animal substances, to wit, bacteria, including gas-producing?
organisms, B. coli group, and streptococci, and the product was filthy?
and decomposed.
On September 25, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of
nolo contendere to the information and the court imposed a fine of
$50 and costs.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 30,1912.
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