NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2355.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF CONFECTIONERY.
On June 26, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, 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 W. Hoops, William F. 
Hoops, and Herman L. Hoops, doing business under the firm name 
and style of Hawley & Hoops, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment 
by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on 
January 14, 1911, from the State of New York into the State of 
Massachusetts, of a quantity of confectionery which was adulter- 
ated. The product was labeled: "Trade Mark A. No. 1. Choco- 
late Cigarettes.    3 for one cent.    Serial No. 312."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Arsenic as As203, 
parts per million, 4.4. Adulteration of the product was alleged in 
the information for the reason that it contained an ingredient dele- 
terious and detrimental to health, to wit, arsenic.
On December 16, 1912, defendant entered a plea of guilty to the 
information and 'the court suspended sentence.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3,1913.
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