6412. Adulteration and misbranding of chocolate lienor.    IT. S.   *   *    *   v.?
Bnnkel Bros., a corporation.    Plea of gruilty.    Pine, $50.     (F. & D.
No. 8534.    I. S. No. 1200.4-m.)
On January 24, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
New York acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United
 States for said district an information against?
Kunkel Bros., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on June 3, 1916, from the State?
of New York into the State of Louisiana, of a quantity of an article labeled in?
part, " Chocolate Liquor," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the following results:
Ether extract   (per  cent)?
?50.64
Ash   (percent)?
?4.32
Water-insoluble ash (per cent)?
_,??2.57
Acid-insoluble ash   (per cent)?
?.57
Crude fiber (percent)?
?3.54
CONSTANTS   OF  FAT.
Critical temperature of dissol-utioh:
Sample?
84. 0
True cacao fruiter?
    94. 0
Saponification No?
196.1
lodin No?
    35.3
Reichert-Meissl No?
     1.1
Free fatty acids as oleic (per cent)?
     2.3
Titer test of fatty acids?
   47.2
Refractive   index?
     1. 4572
Neutralization No. of fatty acids?
207.4
lodin No. of fatty acids?
    33.0
Microscopic examination: More than 5 per cent of shells present.
Fat has darker color than normal cacao butter.    Mixed fatty?
acids have much stronger odor than those of cacao butter.
Analysis shows presence of excessive amount of cacao shells?
and presence of foreign fat.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that certain substances, to wit, cacao shells and a fat or fats foreign to choc??
olate, had been mixed and packed with the article so as to lower or reduce?
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted?
n whole or in part for chocolate liquor which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, "Choco??
late Liquor," borne on the label attached to the package containing the article,?
regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein,?
was false and misleading in that it represented that the article was chocolate?
liquor; and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid, so as to?
deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was chocolate liquor,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not chocolate liquor, but was a mixture?
composed in part of added cacao shells, and a fat or fats foreign to chocolate?
liquor; and for the further reason that it was a mixture composed in part of?
added cacao shells and a fat or fats foreign to chocolate liquor, prepared in?
imitation of chocolate liquor, and was sold under the distinctive name of?
another article, to wit, chocolate liquor.
On February 5, 1919, the defendent company entered a plea of guilty to?
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
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