NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2196.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  OF  CATSUP.
On November 4, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Maryland, 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 Atlas Preserving Co. (Inc.), Baltimore, Md., 
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on November 9, 1910, from the State of Maryland into 
the District of Columbia of a quantity of catsup which was adul- 
terated. The product was labeled: "Atlas Brand Catsup. 1-10 of 
1% Benzoate of Soda.    Atlas Preserving Co., Baltimore, Md."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Yeasts and spores, 
101 per one-sixtieth cubic millimeter; bacteria, 192,000,000 per cubic 
centimeter; mold filaments in 56 per cent of the fields examined. 
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the 
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable 
substance, to wit, tomatoes.
On November 4, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $40.
W.M.HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 11, 1913.
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