NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2351.
((Siren pursuant to section 4 of the food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTEEATION  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 S. J. Van Lill Co., a corporation, Baltimore, 
Md., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on December 5, 1910, from the State of Maryland 
into the District of Columbia of a quantity of catsup which was 
adulterated. The product was labeled: (On barrel head) " 47 Wilson 
Brand Catsup Tomato Pulp Trimmings. Spice, Grain Vinegar, \ of 
1% Benzoate of Sodium. S. J. Van Lill Co., Baltimore, Md. H. B. 
Terrett, Washington, D. C."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed it to be sterile and that it contained 
yeasts and spores 104 per one-sixtieth cmm, bacteria 117,000,000 
per cc, mold filaments in 84 per cent of the fields. Adulteration of 
the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub- 
stance, to wit, tomatoes.
On November 80, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $15.
W. M. HATS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 21, WIS.
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