NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2213.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and  Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OF BEEF, WINE, AND COCA.
On July 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against Warren Sutliff, G. W. Case, J. Wein- 
kauff, and Ensley J. Case, copartners trading under the firm name of 
Sutliff & Case Co., Peoria, Ill., alleging shipment by said defendants, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on November 8, 1911, from 
the State of Illinois into the State of Indiana, of a quantity of "beef, 
wine and coca" which was misbranded. The product was labeled, 
in part: "Sutliff & Case Co. Beef, Wine and Coca. Alcohol 15%. 
Cocaine | grain per fl. oz. * * * Guaranteed under the Food 
and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial No. 528. Peoria, Illinois. 
Manufacturing Pharmacists."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Specific gravity, at 
25° C./25° C, 1.0154; alcohol (per cent by volume), 23.75; solids 
(grams per 100 cc), 12.051; ash (grams per 100-cc), 1.135; ether 
soluble alkaloids (grain per fluid ounce), 0.129; sugars, present; 
proteids, present. Misbranding of the product was alleged in the 
information for the reason that the label thereon bore the following 
statement, among others, concerning the ingredients contained 
therein, to wit, "Alcohol, 15%," which said statement was false and 
misleading in that it conveyed the impression and was intended to 
mean that the amount of alcohol in each bottle of the product so 
labeled was 15 per cent, whereas, in truth and in fact, each bottle of 
the product contained a greater amount of alcohol, to wit, the 
amount of 23.75 per cent.
On October 25, 1912, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the 
defendants and the court imposed a fine of $10, with costs.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 16, 1913.
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