5801.  Adulteration and misbranding of vinegar.    Uğ S.     *     *      *     v. J< 
Kinney  (Kinney  Cider   Co.).     Plea   of  guilty.     Fine,  $25.      (P
No. 8255.    I. S. No. 20674-1.)
On June 13, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western Distr 
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed i 
District Court of the United States for said district an information a; 
John J. Kinney, trading as Kinney Cider Co., Benton Harbor, Mich., al 
shipment by -said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
about April 28, 1916, from the State of Michigan into the State of Illinois 
quantity of an article labeled in part, " Pure Apple Vinegar," which 
adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of th 
partment showed the following results:
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
0. 35
Glycerol (gram per 100 cc) 
0.13
Solids (gram per 100 cc) 
1.00
Nonsugar solids (gram per 100 cc) 
0. 81
Reducing sugar as invert after evaporation, before inversion
(gram per 100 cc) 
0.19
Ash (gram per 100 cc) 
0.19
Ash in nonsugar solids (percent) 
23.4
Alkali-soluble ash (cc N/10 acid per 100 cc) 
20.3
Insoluble ash (gram per 100 cc) 
0.027
Acidity as acetic (grams per 100 cc) 
3.87
Total phosphoric acid  (milligrams per 100 cc) 
13. 7
The analysis shows that the product consists of cider vinegar 
with admixture of water and distilled vinegar or acetic acid.
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Adulteration of the article -was alleged in the information for the reason that 
distilled vinegar and dilute acetic acid had been mixed and packed therewith so 
as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted in part for pure apple vinegar, which the article purported 
to be.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the statement con- 
cerning the article and the ingredients and substances therein contained ap- 
pearing on the label, to wit, '" Pure Apple Vinegar," was false and misleading in 
that it represented to purchasers that the article was pure apple vinegar, and 
for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and 
mislead purchasers into the belief that it was pure apple vinegar, whereas, in 
truth and in fact, it was not, but was a mixture of apple vinegar with distilled 
vinegar and dilute acetic acid.
On June 21, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agi iculture.