7185. Misbranding of Federal Special Cbocolate. IT. S. * * * v. Federal 
Cocoa &  Cbocolate  Co., a corporation..    Plea  of g*uilty.    Fine, Jj?25
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 9854.     I. S. No. 16119-p.)
On October 29, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 Federal 
Cocoa & Chocolate Co., a corporation, Baltimore, Md., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 30, 
1917, from the State of Maryland into the State of Washington, of a quantity 
of chocolate liquor, invoiced as Federal Spec. Liquor, and billed as chocolate, 
which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
Per cent.
Total ash 
;    4. 25
Fat 
48, 8
Crude fiber 
;    4. 44
On a fat-free basis:
Total ash 
8. 30
Crude fiber 
8. 67
Microscopic examination showed the presence of a large amount of shell 
tissue, amounting to at least 4 per cent, and the chemical examination also 
showed the presence of an excessive amount of shells.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, cocoa shells, had been mixed and packed therewith 
so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality, and had been sub- 
stituted in part for chocolate liquor, which the article purported to be.
On October 29, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.