NOTICE  OF  JUDGMENT  NO. 2410.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  AND  MISBRANDING  OF  VODKA.
On August 26, 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 one case, con- 
taining approximately 124 bottles, of vodka, said bottles being of 
various sizes and capacities, each containing 4 fluid ounces and 
upward, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in 
possession of J. Marks, Third and Christian Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., 
alleging that the product had been shipped on or about August 19, 
1912, and transported from the State of New York into the State of 
Pennsylvania and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled, inter 
alia, in Russian (translated into English): "Government Pure 
Alcohol/' and was also labeled in English, "Monopole Vodka, Russian 
Monopole Co."
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 article was vodka, whereas it 
was not vodka, but was an imitation of vodka; and for the further 
reason that said statements 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, 
a prior order of the court for the condemnation and sale of the prop- 
erty was revoked and vacated and a judgment of condemnation and 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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