0485. Adulteration   of   Coca-Cola.     TJ.   S.     *      *      *     v.   "Washington   Coca-Cola?
Bottling' Works, a corporation.    Plea of gruilty.    Fine, $300.     (F. &
D. No. 8780.    I. S. Nos. 1838-p, 1840-p.)
On July 9, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report-by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court?
of the aforesaid District an information against the Washington Coca-Cola?
Bottling Works, a corporation, doing business at Washington, D. C, alleging?
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on August?
8, 1917, and August 11, 1917, from the District of Columbia into the State of?
Virginia, of quantities of an article labeled in part, " Coca-Cola," which was?
adulterated.
Examination of a sample of G bottles of the article from the shipment of?
August 8 by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed that one bottle?
contained a fly; this and two others showed dirt and sediment; the other three?
showed a slight amount of sediment; and all the bottles were dirty. Examina??
tion of a sample from shipment of August 11 consisting of 2 bottles of Coca-?
Cola, showed that one bottle contained sediment and a dead insect, and the?
other bottle contained a slight amount of sediment.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information?
for the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and?
putrid animal and vegetable substance.
On July 9, 1918, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $200.
J. R. BIGGS. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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