NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 3368.
(6i?en pursuant to section 4  of the Food  and Drugs let.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On June 29, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an 
information against Herman Timmerman, Germantown, Ill., alleg- 
ing shipment by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on 
July 17, 1911, from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri 
of a quantity of milk which was adulterated. The product bore no 
label.
Bacteriological examination of a sample of the product by the 
Bureau of Chemistry of this Department showed the following re- 
sults: 20,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 
11,000,000 bacteria per cc, litmus lactose agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 
10,000,000 acid organisms; 10,000 B. coli group; 1,000 streptococci. 
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the 
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
animal substance, to wit, bacteria. (While it was stated in the infor- 
mation in effect that bacteria were filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
animal substances, the Department does not consider this to be a fact 
but claims that the stage of decomposition of animal substances can 
be clearly demonstrated by the abundance and character of bacteria.)
On November 18, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to 
the information and the court imposed a fine of $10, with costs.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 29, 1913.
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