NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2167.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF CATSUP.
On May 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of West Virginia, 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 McMechen Preserving Co., a 
corporation, Wheeling, W. Va., alleging shipment by said company, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, in December, 1910, from the 
State of West Virginia into the District of Columbia of a quantity 
of catsup which was adulterated. The product was labeled: "Elm- 
wood Brand Catsup, made from tomatoes, gran, sugar, salt, pure 
spices, grain vinegar, and preserved with l lO of 1% Benzoate of 
Soda.    McMechen Preserving Co., Wheeling, W. Va. U. S. A."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Molds present in 
32 per cent of microscopic fields examined; yeasts and spores in the 
proportion of 225 per one-sixtieth cmm.; bacteria estimated at 
480,000,000 per cc. Adulteration of the product was alleged in the 
information for the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On May 10, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 
to the information and a fine of $10 with costs was imposed by the 
court.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 2, 1918.
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