5078.  Adulteration and misbranding of gelatin.    U. S.    *    *    *    v. 6 Barrels 
*    *    *    of  Alleged  Gelatin.     Consent  decree   of  condemnation   and
forfeiture.    Product  ordered released  on bond.     (P.   & D.  No.  8343. 
I. S. No. 9002-p.    S. No. C-709.)
On July 23, 1917, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 6 barrels of alleged gelatin at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on June 27, 1917, and transported from the State of 
Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled, " Powdered 
Gelatine."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that a certain substance, to wit, glue, containing excessive amounts of zinc, had 
been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect 
its quality and strength, and had been substituted for gelatin, which the article 
purported to be, and for the further reason that it contained an added poisonous 
and deleterious ingredient, to wit, zinc, which might render such article injuri- 
ous to health.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was an imita- 
tion of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article, 
to wit, powdered gelatin.
On August 30, 1917, Thomas Kane, Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and 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 pro- 
ceedings and the execution of a bond in the -sum of $1,000, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the article should be labeled, " Not 
to be used for food or for the manufacture of food articles."
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.