NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2362.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF CONFECTIONERY.
On December 16, 1912, the United States Attorney for the South- 
ern 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 April 
10, 1911, from the State of New York into the State of Indiana, of a 
quantity of confectionery which was adulterated. The product was 
labeled (in part) : " Serial No. 312. Guaranteed under the Food and 
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906.   A No. 1.   Chocolate Segars."
Analysis of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed that it contained arsenic. Adulteration of 
the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it con- 
tained an ingredient deleterious and detrimental to health, to wit, 
arsenic.
On December 16,1912, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of de- 
fendants and the court suspended sentence.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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