5636. Adulteration and misbranding; of vinegar, XJ. S? * * * " v. 65 
Barrels * * * of * * * Pare Cider Vinegar. Consent de- 
cree  of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product  released  on  bon.,1.
(P. & D. No. 7312.    I. S. No. 12325-1.    S. No. C-470.)
On April 17, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis 
ti'ict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 65 Barrels of so-called pure eider vinegar remaining unsold 
in the original unbroken packages at Kansas City, Kans., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about March 31, 1916, by the Gist-Leo Vinegar 
Co., Springfield, Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State 
of Kansas, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The barrels were labeled " T. B. M. Best Made Pure Cider 
Vinegar."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid which had 
been mixed and packed therewith and substituted for the pure product in such 
a manner as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the statement on 
the labels on the barrels, to wit, " T. B. M. Best Made Pure Cider Vinegar," was 
false and misleading and calculated to induce the purchaser to believe that the 
so called pure cider vinegar was pure, when, in truth and in fact, it was not, but 
was adulterated as above set forth.
On June 21, 1917, the case having come on to be heard on the pleadings, and 
the court having considered the pleadings and the evidence, judgment of Con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, providing among other things that the 
vinegar might be released upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the 
execution of bond in the sum of $200, in conformity with section 10 of the act, 
conditioned in part that the product should be properly relabeled. On June 30, 
1917, the Gist-Leo Vinegar Co., Springfield, Mo., having executed bond as 
directed in the decree and the costs of the proceedings having been paid, it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be released to said claimant 
company.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.