NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2166.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act. )
MISBRANDING OF VODKA.
On September 24, 1912, the United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of one case 
containing 100 bottles, and another case containing 200 bottles of 
vodka, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in 
possession of S. Greenstein, Suffern, N. Y., alleging that the product 
had been shipped on or about September 20, 1912, by the Fulton 
Extract & Cordial Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., and transported from the 
State of New York, through the States of New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania, into the State of New York, and charging misbranding in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: 
" Monopole Vodka—Made and Bottled in Russian Monopole." The 
product also bore a label in Russian characters stating that it was 
"Vodka."
Misbranding of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that the label thereon bore a statement regarding it which was false 
and misleading in that the product was falsely branded as to the 
country in which it was produced and manufactured; that is to say, 
the statement in Russian, " Monopol Vodka—Made and Bottled in 
Russian Monopole," and in that the label bore a statement indicating 
that the printing of the label was done by the Excise or Interior 
Department of the Empire of Russia; whereas, as a matter of fact, 
the product was made and bottled in the borough of Brooklyn, State 
and city of New York, and the printing of the label was done within 
said borough, city, and State. Misbranding was alleged for the 
further reason that the product was an imitation of and offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article, and in that it was
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labeled and branded so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, and 
in that it purported to be a foreign product, when in fact it was of 
domestic origin and manufacture; and it was further misbranded in 
that the label thereon bore a statement, design, and device regarding 
the ingredients and substances contained therein which was false 
and misleading in that, whereas the label bore a statement indicating 
that the printing of said label and device was done by the Excise or 
Interior Department of the Empire of Russia, and the statement that 
the product purported to be "Monopole Vodka—Made and Bottled in 
Russian Monopol," in truth and in fact, said printing was not done 
under the auspices of the Empire of Russia or any of its agencies, 
but was done in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, 
and the product was manufactured and produced by the Fulton 
Extract & Cordial Works in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State 
of New York.
On October 17, 1912, a decree of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered and it was further ordered that the product should be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 31, 1912.
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