4012. Adulteration of cream.   TJ. S. v. John ?. Ficklin.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, 95.   (F. & D.
No. 283-c.)
On April 14, 1915, 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 in the police court of the District aforesaid an information against?
John D. Ficklin, Bealton, Va., alleging the shipment by said defendant, in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, on March 24, 1915, from the State of Virginia into the?
District of Columbia, of a quantity of cream which was adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that a valuable con??
stituent of said article of food, to wit, butter fat, had been left out and abstracted in?
whole or in part.
On April 14,1915, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, and the?
court imposed a fine of'$5.
CARL VKOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, October26, 1915.'
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