7049. Adulteration and misbranding' of egg- noodles. U. S. * * * v. 
United States Macaroni Mfg. Co., a corporation, Plea o? g*wiliy. 
Fine, $25.     (P. & D. No. 9591.     I. S. No. 16752-p.)
On May 3, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the United States Macaroni Mfg. Co., a corporation, Spokane, Wash., alleging 
Shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about April 9, 1918, from the State of Washington into the State of Montana, 
of a quantity of an article, labeled in part " Superior Quality Macaroni * * * 
Egg Noodles," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
Per cent.
Ether extract 
0. 50
Lecithin as P,05 
0. 022
Color: Tartrazine (S. & J. 94).
Analysis shows product to contain very little egg solids   (less 
than I per cent), and also to be artificially colored. 
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, an alimentary paste containing little or no egg, was
substituted in Avhole for egg noodles, which the article purported to be, and 
for the further reason that it Avas a product inferior to egg noodles, to wit, a 
product composed of an alimentary paste containing little or no egg, prepared 
in imitation of egg noodles, and Avas colored with a certain coal tar dye, to 
Avit, tartrazine, S. & J. 94, so as to simulate the appearance of egg noodles, and 
in a manner whereby its inferiority to egg noodles Avas concealed.
Misbranding of the article Avas alleged for the reason that the statement, to 
Wit, " Egg Noodles," borne on the boxes containing the article, regarding it 
and the ingredients and substances contained therein, Avas false and mislead- 
ing in that it represented that the article was egg noodles, and for the further 
reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the pur- 
chaser into the belief that it Avas egg noodles, Avhereas, in truth and in fact, 
it was not, but was an artificially colored alimentary paste containing little 
or no egg.
On July 16, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.