NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2611.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs let.)
U. S. ?. 4 Barrels of Vinegar.   Decree of condemnation by default.   Good*
ordered sold.
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VINEGAR.
On November 28, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 4 barrels of vinegar 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in posses- 
sion of H. W. Schlutker & Co., Covington, Ky., alleging that the 
product had been shipped by the Union Vinegar Co., Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of 
Kentucky, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " Sugar 
Molasses Spirit Vinegar. Union Vinegar Co., Distributors Com- 
pound Sugar Vinegar 4'0 Grains, Cincinnati, Ohio."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a colored, distilled vinegar which had 
been mixed and packed with and substituted for vinegar in such 
quantities as were injurious and unfit for human use and consump- 
tion. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the product was 
branded as set forth above, thereby purporting and representing 
that it was a sugar or molasses vinegar, when in truth and in fact 
it was not a sugar or molasses vinegar, and said brands so purport- 
ing and representing it were false and misleading in that the product 
consisted of a colored, distilled vinegar which had been mixed and 
packed with and substituted for sugar and molasses.
On March 20, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
further ordered that the product should be sold by the United States 
marshal after marking same " Imitation vinegar." The Depart- 
ment of Agriculture does not maintain that the distilled vinegar 
present in the article on which this case is based is injurious and 
unfit for human use and consumption.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON-, D. C, September 20s 1913.
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