NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2455.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U.  S.  v. Kutger Bleeclcer.   Plea, of guilty.   Sentence  suspended.
MISBRANDING OF COFFEE.
On November 26,1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict an information against Eutger Bleecker, doing business under 
the firm name and style of Eutger Bleecker & Co., New York, N. Y., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on March 16, 1910, from the State of New York into the 
State of Illinois, of a quantity of coffee which was misbranded. The 
product was labeled: " Dutch East Indies P. W. S. Ankola B. R." 
" Dutch East Indies AM CCO 1" " PWS Ankola BE J. W. Bunn 
& Co., Springfield, Ill."
Examination of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry of this Department showed that it was a green coffee and 
tended to show that it was a sweated coffee and perhaps a very pale 
Dutch East Indian, probably a Kroe, sweated to give it more value. 
The examination tended to show that the product was not an Ankola 
coffee. Misbranding of the product was alleged in the information 
for the reason that the package and label thereon bore a statement, 
to wit, "Ankola," regarding the product and the ingredients and sub- 
stances contained therein, which was false and misleading, that is to 
say, the said statement and label represented that the product was an 
Ankola coffee and that it conformed to the commercial concept of
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Ankola coffee, when in truth and in fact it was not a genuine Ankola 
coffee, but was a mixture of inferior coffees which had been submitted 
to a process known as sweating, and was labeled in the manner and 
form aforesaid so as to mislead and deceive the purchaser into the 
belief that it was a genuine Ankola coffee, when in truth and in fact 
it was not so, but was an imitation thereof and was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, Ankola coffee.
On February 10, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to 
the information and the court suspended sentence.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 23,1913.
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