3794= Adulteration and misbranding of brandy.   TJ. S. v. 5 Cases of   *   *   *   Brandy.   Con??
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product ordered released on bond.
(F. & D. No. 6149.   I. S.No. 1700-k.   S. No. E-173.)
On December 4, 1914, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts,?
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 5 cases con??
taining a product purporting to be brandy, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the product had been shipped by Charles?
Spiegel & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., and transported from the State of New York?
into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel because substances, to wit,?
neutral spirits, had been mixed and packfed with said article in such a manner as to?
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength. Misbranding was?
alleged for the reason that said food upon certain packages and labels thereof bore?
certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the ingredients and substances?
contained in said food, that is to say, the following words, "From France," "Francois?
Bremon and Cie, Cognac," and a number of stars prominently displayed thereon,?
which said statements, designs, and devices were false and misleading because they?
would lead the purchaser to believe that said food consisted of brandy, whereas, in?
truth and in fact, it did not consist of brandy.
On January 25, 1915, the said Charles Spiegel & Co., Inc., claimant, having con??
sented to a decree and agreed to pay the costs of the proceedings, judgment of con??
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be delivered and surrendered to said claimant upon the execution of bond in?
the sum of $100, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 8, 1915.
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