NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2411.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VODKA.
On September 19, 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 libels for the seizure and condemnation of five cases of vodka, 
four of which contained 168 bottles of the product, said bottles being 
of various sizes and capacities and each bottle containing 4 fluid ounces 
or upward of the product,- remaining in the possession of August 
Remy & Co., 248 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; and one of 
which, containing 119 bottles of various sizes and capacities, containing 
4 fluid ounces or upward of the product, and remaining in possession 
of John Matter, 1950 Bristol Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; said cases 
having been opened and the bottles containing the product taken 
from said cases. The product was labeled, inter alia, in Russian 
(translated into English): "Government Pure Alcohol," and was also 
labeled in English: "Monopole Vodka Made and Bottled in Russian 
Monopole."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libels for the reason 
that a certain substance other than vodka, to wit, a dilute solution of 
alcohol, had been substituted for vodka. Misbranding was alleged 
for the reason that the product was labeled as set forth above, and 
the statements on the labels 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; and 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 prop- 
erty, an order of the court granted on October 23, 1912, for the con- 
demnation and sale of the product was revoked and vacated and a 
decree 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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