5843. Adultei-ation and misbranding of gelatin. U. S. * * * v. 2 Bar- 
rels of Gelatin. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture* 
Product ordered released on -lbond. (F. & I No. 8378. I. S. No. 
8803-p.    S. No. C-719.)
On July 30, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, 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 con- 
demnation of 2 barrels, each containing 350 pounds of gelatin, consigned on. 
or about March 27, 1917, by W. K. Jahn Co., Chicago, Ill., remaining unsold in 
the original unbroken packages at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article 
had been shipped and transported from the State of Illinois into the State 
of Ohio, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act.   The article was labeled in part, " Special W. Gelatine."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient, to wit, zinc, which 
might render the article injurious to health.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was offered for 
sale, sold, and invoiced under the distinctive name of gelatin, when, in truth 
and in fact, it was not, but was another article, to wit, a mixture of gelatin and 
zinc.
On October 2, 1917, the said W. K. Jahn 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 relabeled under the supervision 
of a representative of this department and released to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a good and 
sufficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
CAKE VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.