5963. Adulteration and misbranding of cognac brandy. II. S. * * * v. 
Adolph Gruenewald and Harry Shatliin, copartners (New England 
Cordial Inc Importing Co.). Fleas of guilty." Fine, JJ550. ĢI\ & L). No. 
8295.    I. S. No. 8107-m.)
On February 2, 1918, the United States1 attorney for the District of Rhode 
Island, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Adolph 
Gruenewald and Harry Shatkin, copartners, trading as the New England Cordial 
&. Importing Co., Providence, R. I., alleging shipment by said defendants, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about October 6, 1916, 
from the State of Rhode Island into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity 
of an article labeled in part, " Cognac Type Fin Vieux Brandy," which was 
adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results, expressed, unless otherwise indicated, as 
grams per 100 liters to 100 proof:
Proof  (degrees) 
80.25
Solids 
264.1
Acids, total, as acetic 
13.16
Esters, as acetic 
8.77
Aldehydes, as acetic 
4. 98
Furfural: Trace.
Fusel oil 
9. 59
The above analysis shows that the product consists in whole or 
in part of neutral spirits. 
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, neutral spirits, had been mixed and packed therewith, so 
as to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substi- 
tuted in part for brandy, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement, to 
wit, " Cognac Type Fin Vieux Brandy," and the statement, to wit, " Cognac 
Fin View Brandy Alargu memories," together with a design of three stars 
and a device of flours de lys [lis], borne on the labels attached to the bottles, 
regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein, 
were false and misleading in that they represented that the article was fine 
old brandy of cognac type and that said article was cognac, to wit, a brandy 
produced in the Cognac district of France, and for the further rodison that it 
was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the 
belief that it was fine old brandy of cognac type and that said article was 
cognac, to wit, a brandy produced in the Cognac district of Prance, whereas, in 
truth and in fact, it was not, but was a mixture consisting largely of neutral 
spirits produced in the United States of America.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the further reason that it was 
food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and 
conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On February 6, 1918, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
CAUL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.