NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2137.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION   AND   MISBRANDING   OF   BLACKBERRY   CORDIAL.
On June 12, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against K. Gottstein, J. L. Gottstein, A. Bast- 
heim, and F. V. Fisher, copartners, doing business as M. & K. 
Gottstein, Seattle, Wash., alleging the shipment by them, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about November 14, 1910, 
from the State of Washington into the Territory of Alaska of a 
quantity of blackberry cordial which was adulterated and mis- 
branded.    The product was labeled: "Fine Old Blackberry Cordial."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Tartaric acid, total, 
0.165; color, fruit and also fast red C (S. & J. 103); no sahcyhc or 
benzoic acid detected; no saccharin detected; decidedly spicy flavor; 
specific gravity 17.5°, 1.0705; alcohol, per cent volume, 22.74; 
glycerol, 0.296; solids, 23.20 per cent; nonsugar solids, 0.24 per cent; 
sucrose by Clerget, 0.6 per cent; reducing sugar invert before inver- 
sion, 22.36 per cent; polarization direct temperature 20° C, — 7.4°; 
polarization invert temperature 20° C, —8.2°; ash, 0.124 per cent. 
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the 
reason that a substance, to wit, an imitation blackberry cordial, 
prepared from wine and artificially colored, was mixed and packed 
therewith in such a manner as to reduce and injuriously affect its 
quality and strength, and further in that a substance, to wit, an 
imitation blackberry cordial prepared from wine and artificially 
colored, had been substituted in part for the genuine article, and 
further that the product was colored in a manner whereby inferiority 
was concealed. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the 
product was so labeled and branded as to deceive and mislead, being 
labeled "Blackberry Cordial," thereby purporting to be blackberry
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cordial, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was an imitation blackberry 
cordial, prepared from wine.
On June 15, 1912, a plea of guilty was entered in behalf of the 
defendants and the court imposed a fine of $25, with costs of $26.42.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 21, 1912.
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