4469. Adulteration and misbranding- of so-called vanilla extract.    U. S. v.?
Conron ?fe  Co., a corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D.
No. 6527.    I. S. No. 10969-e.)
On November 3, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of New "York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in?
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against5?
Conron & Co., a corporation, New York, "N. Y., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on June 4, 1913, from the State?
of New York into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of so-called vanilla extract,?
which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled: (On gallon?
container) " Conron's Artificial Exquisite Non-Alcoholic Decoction of Selected -?
best cured Mexican Vanilla beans. It is already prepared to put right into the?
cream, at a great saving to you. Trade desiring to have the Mexican Vanilla?
seeds in their cream and the Exquisite Mexican Bean Flavor, can "not praise?
Conron's Famous Non-Alcoholic Decoction enough. Conron & Co., 265 "West?
Broadway, New York. No. 9399. Guarantee Clause." (Label on shipping?
package) " Conron & Co., sugar coloring Extracts. 265 West Broadway, New?
York."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted of a colored solution with an admixture?
of vanilla bean seeds deposited as sediment. The colored solution was in?
principal part not a product of Mexican beans, but a solution containing?
glycerin, synthetic vanillin, and caramel.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that a substance, to wit, artificial vanillin, had been mixed and packed there??
with so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and?
had been substituted, in whole or in part, for a product of vanilla beans, which?
the article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason?
that the product was an inferior article, to wit, a mixture of a product of?
vanilla beans and artificial vanillin, and was colored with caramel in a manner-?
whereby its inferiority was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the following statements regard??
ing the article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, appearing?
on the label aforesaid, to wit, " Conron's Artificial Exquisite Non-Alcoholic De??
coction of Selected best cured Mexican Vanilla beans. It is already prepared?
to put right into the cream, at a great saving to you. Trade desiring to have?
the Mexican Vanilla seeds in their cream and the Exquisite Mexican Bean?
Flavor, can not praise Conron's Famous Non-Alcoholic Decoction enough,"?
were false and misleading in that they indicated to the purchasers thereof?
that the article consisted wholly of a product of vanilla b'eans, and were such?
as to deceive and mislead the purchasers into the belief that it consisted wholly?
of a product of vanilla beans, when, in truth and in fact, it did not, but con??
sisted of a mixture of a product of vanilla beans and artificial vanillin, arti??
ficially colored, and was an imitation of another article, to wit, vanilla extract.
On November 8, 1915, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty 'to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,
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