3330.  Adulteration   of   cream.     IT.   S.   v.   Charles   T.   Hill.     Plea   of   grnilty.?
Fine,  $5.     (F.   &  D.  No.   226-C.)
On April 8, 1914, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Health Officer of said District, authorized by the?
Secretary of Agriculture, filed an information in the police court of the Dis??
trict aforesaid against Charles T. Hill, late of the State of Maryland, alleging?
the sale by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on February?
10, 1914, of a quantity of cream which was adulterated. Adulteration was?
alleged in the information for the reason that a valuable constituent of the?
article of food, to wit, butter fat, was left out and abstracted in whole and?
in part.
On April 8, 1914, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $5.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 15, 1914-