NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2560.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v.  100 Cheeses.   Decree of condemnation.   Product released  on bond.
MISBRANDING OF CHEESE.
On September 13, 1911, the United States Attorney for the South- 
ern District of Florida, 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 100 boxes of 
cheese remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in 
possession of the Cudahy Packing Co., a corporation, at Jacksonville, 
Fla., alleging that the product had been shipped from the State of 
Wisconsin into the State of Florida and charging misbranding in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was unlabeled, 
except certain penciled figures indicating the net weight of the 
cheese contained in the boxes.
Misbranding of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that the boxes did not contain the net weight of cheese that they 
purported to contain, as indicated by the pencil marks in black pencil 
upon the sides of each of the boxes, and said marking or false weight 
was misleading and false so as to deceive and mislead a purchaser of 
the product as to the actual net weight thereof contained in each box.
On April 4, 1913, the costs of the proceedings having been paid by 
the said Cudahy Packing Co., claimant, and the product having been 
released to said claimant upon the execution of bond in conformity 
with the Act, a formal decree of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 8, 1913.
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