NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2589.
(Gircii pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
IT. S. v. Keller-Lorenz Co.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $25 and costs.
MISBRANDING OF BOILED CIDER.
On November 6, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against the Keller-Lorenz Co., a corporation, 
Spokane, Wash., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on or about October 7, 1910, from the State 
of Washington into the State of Idaho, of a quantity of boiled cider 
which was misbranded. The product was labeled: " Pure Boiled 
Cider, Manufactured by Keller-Lorenz Company, Spokane, Washing- 
ton."
Analysis of a sample of the product made by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry of this Department showed the following results: Sodium ben- 
zoate, 0.069 per cent. Misbranding of the product was alleged in the 
information for the reason that the product was labeled as set forth 
above, which said label was false and misleading in that said product 
contained 6.9 per cent of benzoate of soda, and for the further reason 
that said product was labeled and branded so as to deceive and mis- 
lead the purchaser, in that it was not plainly labeled to show the 
presence and amount of benzoate of soda.
On April 14, 1913, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 
to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs of 
$23. 87. It will be noted that while it was charged in the information 
that the product contained 6.9 per cent benzoate of soda, the analysis 
showed the presence of 0.069 per cent.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture,
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 16, 1913,
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