NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2409.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VODKA.
On August 22, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of two cases of vodka, 
containing approximately 375 bottles of various capacities, each 
bottle containing 4 fluid ounces or upward of vodka, remaining unsold 
in the original unbroken packages in possession of S. Feinstein, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., alleging that the product had been shipped, on or about 
August 16, 1912, from the State of New York into the State of Penn- 
sylvania, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled in the Russian 
language, inter alia (translated into English): "Government Pure 
Alcohol," and also in English, "Monopole Vodka Russian Transfer 
Monopole Company."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that a certain substance other than vodka, to wit, a dilute solution 
of alcohol, had been substituted wholly for vodka. Misbranding was 
alleged for the reason that the product was labeled as set forth above, 
and the statements on the label were false and misleading in that 
they purported to represent that the product was vodka, whereas it 
was not vodka, but was an imitation of vodka. Misbranding was 
alleged for the further reason that the statements aforesaid on the 
label were false and misleading in that they purported to represent 
that the article was a foreign product, whereas, in truth and in fact, 
it was not a foreign product, but was a product of the United States 
of America.
On January 15, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
prior order of the court for the condemnation and sale of the property 
was revoked and vacated and a judgment of condemnation and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was further ordered by the court that 
the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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