4JLGS.  Adnlteration    and    misbranding    of   vinegar,      TJ.    S.    v.    50   Barrels?
*    *    *    of    *    *    *    Vinegar.     Default   eleei*ee   of  condemnation   RJI*
forfeiture.      Prodtxet   ordered   sold.      (P.   &   D.   No.   6274.      I.    S.   No.?
12281-k.    S. No. C-154.)
On February 8, 1915, the United States attorney for the District of Indiana,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculttire, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 50 barrels, more or less, of a product purporting to be apple?
vinegar, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Evansville,?
Ind., alleging that the product had been shipped and transported from the State?
of Kentucky into the State of Indiana, the shipment having been received on?
or about December 7, 1914, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The barrels were labeled: " Guaranteed under?
the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906.    Serial No. 49547."
It was alleged in the libel that dilute acetic acid and [or] distilled vinegar?
had been mixed and packed with the product in each of the barrels so as to?
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality; that dilute acetic acid and?
[or] distilled vinegar had been substituted in part for pure apple vinegar in?
the product in each of the barrels; that the product in each of the said barrels?
was adulterated contrary to the law of Congress in that behalf made and?
provided.
, It was further alleged that the product in each of the barrels was sold?
under the distinctive name of pure apple vinegar, when, in fact, it was not?
pure apple vinegar; and, further, that the product contained in each of the?
barrels was misbranded contrary to the laws of Congress in that behalf made?
and provided.
On. September 21, 1915, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be sold by the United States marshal, and that?
before making such a-sale he should remove and obliterate the marks, brands,?
and. figures indicating the substance contained in the barrels, and should?
rebrand the sarrie by placing thereon "A Compound of Apple Waste Vinegar,?
Acetic Acid and Water."
CAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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