NOTICE   OF JUDGMENT  NO.  2142.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND  MISBRANDING OF EVAPORATED  MILK.
On June 27, 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 the Meadowbrook Condensed Milk 
Co., a corporation, Issaquah, Wash., alleging the sale for interstate, 
shipment by said company under a written guaranty, on or about 
May 3, 1911, of a quantity of evaporated milk which was adulterated 
and misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, and said 
product without having been changed in any particular was thereafter 
shipped by the purchaser thereof from the State of Washington into 
the Territory of Alaska. The product was labeled: "Meadowbrook 
Condensed Milk Co., Meadow Brand Guaranteed by Meadowbrook 
Condensed Milk Co. under the Food and Drugs Act June 30th, 
1906.    *    *    *".
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Total solids, 21.67 
percent; fat, 6.16 per cent. The results showed too low a concentra- 
tion to constitute condensed milk. Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, to wit, 
water and other liquids had been mixed and packed therewith in such 
a manner as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, and farther, in that a substance, to wit, water and other 
liquids had been substituted in part for the product, and further in 
that the same had not been sufficiently evaporated to constitute con- 
densed milk. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the product 
was so labeled and branded as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, 
being labeled as set forth above, whereas, in truth and in fact, the 
product was an imitation condensed milk.
On August 29, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25 and
costs, taxed at $25.28.
WILLIS L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 23, 1912.
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