NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT NO. 2170.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND  MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On June 16, 1911, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Rhode Island, 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 28 barrels of vinegar remaining 
unsold in the original unbroken packages at Providence, R. I., 
alleging that the product had been shipped on or about September 
29, 1910, by M. H. & M. S. Place, Oswego, N. Y., and transported 
from the State of New York into the State of Rhode Island, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "M. H. and M. S. Place 48 
Cider Vinegar, guaranteed under pure food law not made by a trust, 
Oswego, New York."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it purported to be pure cider vinegar but there had been mixed 
with it a dilute solution of acetic acid and distilled vinegar and 
foreign substances in imitation of cider vinegar, so as to reduce and 
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the 
further reason that certain substances, to wit, a dilute solution of 
acetic acid and other foreign substances designed and intended to 
produce an imitation of cider vinegar had been substituted in part in 
said vinegar for cider vinegar. Misbranding was alleged for the 
reason that the product was labeled as set forth above whereby it 
purported to be cider vinegar but was in fact an imitation of cider 
vinegar, to wit, composed of dilute acetic acid and other substances 
in imitation of cider vinegar. Misbranding was alleged for the further 
reason that the product was labeled and branded as set forth above 
so as to deceive and mislead a purchaser, in that the label bore the 
statement that the product was cider vinegar, which statement was 
false and misleading in the particulars aforesaid.
On May 8, 1912, said M. H. & M. S. Place, claimants, having con- 
sented thereto, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
the court finding the product misbranded.    It was further ordered
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that the product should be released and delivered to said claimants 
upon payment of all the costs of the proceedings and the execution of 
bond in the sum of $250 in conformity with section 10 of the Act.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C.; January 3, 1913.
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