NOTICE OE JUDGMENT NO. 2440.
(Siren pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
V.  S. v.  Henry  W.  Diechaus.    Tried  to   a  jury.   Verdict,  guilty.   Fine,  $25
and costs.
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On August 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against Henry W. Diechaus, Worden, Ill., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on July 12, 1911, from the State of Illinois into the State 
of Missouri, of a quantity of milk which was adulterated. The 
product bore no label.
Bacteriological examination of samples of the product by the 
Bureau of Chemistry of this Department showed the following 
results: (Sample No. 1) 90,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 
2 days at 37° C-; 100,000 B. coli group. (Sample No. 2) 13,000,000 
bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 100,000 B. coli 
group; 10,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 3) 16,000,000 bacteria per 
cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 10,000 gas-producing organ- 
isms ; 100,000 streptococci. Adulteration of the product was alleged 
in the information for the reason that it was composed in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, and for the further 
reason that water had been mixed and packed with it, which reduced 
and lowered its strength and quality.
On January 30, 1913, the case having come on for trial before the 
court and a jury, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the first 
count of the information, which charged that the product was com-
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posed in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, 
and a verdict of not guilty as to the second count, which charged that 
the product was adulterated in that water had been mixed and packed 
with it, and the court, on February 3, 1913, imposed a fine of $25 and 
costs.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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