7014* Misbranding   of   mineral   spring   water.    U.   S.   *    *    *   v.   Deerfield 
Mineral Springs Co., a corporation.    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $20 and
costs.     (F. & D. No. 9304.    I. S. No. 8832-p.)
On November 15, 1918, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Ohio, 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 the 
Deerfield Mineral Springs Co., a corporation, Deerfield, O., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the Food and. Drugs Act, as amended, on or 
about July 27, 1917, from the State of Ohio into the State of Kentucky, of a 
quantity of an article, labeled in part " Sparkling Deerfield Mineral Spring 
Water Lithiated," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
IONS. 
Milligrams
per liter.
Silica   (Si02) 
9.5
Sulphuric acid   (SO*) 
125.0
Carbonic acid  (C03) 
0.0
Bicarbonic acid (HC03) 
528.0
184122?-20 2
ner liter. 
Nitric acid (NO3) : Trace.
Nitrous acid   (N02) 
0.2
Chlorin   (CI) 
372.0
Iron (Fe)

5
Aluminum (AI)j'
Calcium   (Ca) 
55.3
Magnesium   (Mg) 
22.4
Potassium   (K) 
7.1
Sodium (Na) 
332.1
Lithium (Li) 
17.4
Ammonium  (NH4) 
.9
1, 470. 4
HYPOTHETICAL COMBINATIONS.
Ammonium chlorid (NBUC1) 
2.7
Lithium chlorid (LiCl) 
106.5
Potassium chlorid (KCl) 
13.5
Sodium nitrite   (NaN03) 
.3
Sodium chlorid   (NaCl) 
454.1
Sodium sulphate   (Na2S04) 
184.8
Sodium bicarbonate  (NaHCOs) 
338.9
Magnesium bicarbonate   (Mg(HCO-3)a) 
134.8
Calcium bicarbonate (Ca(HCO-3)2) 
223.7
Ferrous bicarbonate  (Fe(HC03)2) 
1.6
Silica  (SiO,) 
9.5
1, 470.4 
Artificially carbonated.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that the statement, to wit, " Mineral Spring Water," borne on the 
labels attached to the bottles containing the article, regarding it and the 
ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in 
that it represented that the article was genuine mineral spring water, 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 genuine mineral spring water, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not, but was a product artificially car- 
bonated and artificially lithiated, and which contained added salt, prepared in 
imitation of mineral spring water, and for the further reason that it was an 
imitation product artificially carbonated and artificially lithiated, and which 
contained added salt, prepared in imitation of genuine mineral spring water, 
and was offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article, 
to wit, mineral spring water. 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 5, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.