NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2399.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On April 30, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Nebraska, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an informa- 
tion against the Haarmann Vinegar & Pickle Co., a corporation, 
Omaha, Nebr., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on August 22, 1911, from the State of 
Nebraska into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of vinegar which was 
adulterated and misbranded. The product was labeled: "Fowler 
Company Pure Cider Vinegar, Waterloo, Iowa."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Alcohol (per cent by 
volume), 0.47; glycerol (grams per 100 cc), 0.13; solids (grams per 
100 cc), 1.95; nonsugar solids (grams per 100 cc), 1.45; reducing 
sugar as invert (before inversion after evaporation) (grams per 100 
cc), 0.50; sugar in solids, per cent, 25.6; polarization direct tempera- 
ture (22° C), -1.9° V.; ash (grams per 100 cc), 0.27; ash, insoluble 
in water (grams per 100 cc), 0.10; alkalinity soluble ash (cc N/10 acid 
per 100 cc), 10.2; total phosphoric acid (mg per 100 cc), 39.9; acid, 
as acetic (grams per 100 cc), 4.02; volatile acid, as acetic (grams per 
100 cc), 4.00; fixed acid, as malic (grams per 100 cc), 0.02; lead pre- 
cipitate, heavy; color, degrees, brewer's scale, 0.5 in., 5; pentosans 
(grams per 100 cc), 0.08; ratio, ash to nonsugar solids, 1:5.4. (All 
measurements made at 20° C.) Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, to wit, a 
dilute solution of acetic acid or distilled vinegar, containing added 
ash material, and a product high in reducing sugars had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the genuine article, to wit, pure cider 
vinegar. . Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement 
"
pure cider vinegar" borne on the label was false and misleading 
because it would mislead and deceive the purchaser into the belief
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that the product was a pure cider vinegar, conforming to the com- 
mercial standard of such article, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was 
a dilute solution of acetic acid or distilled vinegar containing added 
ash material and a product high in reducing sugars, and was further 
misbranded in that it was labeled and branded so as to deceive and 
mislead the purchaser, being labeled "pure cider vinegar/' thereby 
purporting that it was a pure cider vinegar conforming to the com- 
mercial standard of such article, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was 
a dilute solution of acetic acid or distilled vinegar, containing added 
ash material and a product high in reducing sugars.
On December 6, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and on January 6, 1913, the court imposed 
a fine of $25 and costs.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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