&505. Adulteration amd xnrift&rasutimg1 oS vinagfair.    U. &,   *   *   *   v. 4 Taaks,
JSiielt OowtaiaiiBcg- ~Wwre:ggtv * * *. Gama,en.t decree e? comdemna- 
tiOHi and ?osfeiifeiiic>e> 5*Ke#w*t ?eieBed re-lease* <? IKMUJU (.F. & D. 
No. 8224.    I. S. No. 10769-m.    S. No. C-687.)
On April 4, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, 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 4 tanks, containing 8,500 gallons of vinegar, remaining un- 
sold in the original unbroken packages at Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging that 
the article had been shipped, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about March 19, 1917, by Gist-Leo Vinegar Co., Springfield, Mo., and trans- 
ported from the State of Missouri into the State of Oklahoma, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was invoiced as " Cider Vinegar of 52 grain strength."
It was alleged in the libel that the said article of food in said tanks con- 
tained was not labeled and branded so as to show the name, kind, quality, 
grade, or analysis of the contents thereof, but that the same wa?s sold, con- 
tracted for, and invoiced as " Eighty Five Hundred Gallons Cider Vinegar, 
fifty-two grain strength," when, in truth and in fact, the contents of said 
tanks did not consist of cider vinegar, 52-grain strength, but were misbranded 
and adulterated, and contained a product consisting in part of distilled vinegar 
and in part of dilute acetic acid, and that distilled vinegar and dilute- acetic 
acid had been mixed and packed with the contents thereof so as to reduce and 
lov. er and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and in that said adulterat- 
ing sub-stance had been substituted in part for cider vinegar.
On May 14, 1917, the said Gist-Leo Vinegar Co., claimant, having consented 
to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be released to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the exeeutiore of a bond in 
the sum of $1,200, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
GAEL VKSOMAN, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture,