NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2099.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  OF CANDY.
On April 9, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Wisconsin, 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 George Ziegler Co., a corporation, Mil- 
waukee, Wis., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 9, 1911, from the State of 
Wisconsin into the State of Colorado, of a quantity of candy which 
was adulterated. The product was labeled: "100 Peerless Cigars, 
Guaranteed by the George Ziegler Company, under the Food and 
Drugs Act, of June 30, 1906,. Serial No. 2662."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: That the product as a 
whole contained arsenic in amount slightly in excess of two parts per 
million, estimated as arsenous oxide. The candy segars were coated 
with shellac, present in amount approximately 1.29 per cent. Exami- 
nation of the shellac coating showed that the coating itself contained 
but traces of arsenic. Adulteration of the product was alleged in the 
information for the reason that it contained as one of its ingredients 
a certain mineral and poisonous substance, to wit, two parts per 
million of arsenic, and that said mineral and poisonous substance 
formed a constituent part of the product, and rendered and made it 
deleterious and detrimental to health.
On August 6, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 
to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 12,1912.
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