7221. Adulteration and Misbranding of gelatin.   U. S.   *   *   *   v. 1 Barrel of Gelatin.   De 
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and sale.   (F. & D. No. 9988.   I. S. No. 
7808-r.   S. No- C-1138.)
On April 1, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Illinois, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the 
United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 1 barrel 
of gelatin, consigned by W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., remaining unsold in 
the original unbroken packages at Marion, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about March 1, 1919, and transported from the State of Missouri into 
the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that glue and an 
excessive amount of zinc had been mixed and packed therewith and substituted 
wholly or in part for gelatin, which the article purported to be, and for the further 
reason that it contained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient, to wit, zinc, 
which might render the article injurious to health.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, gelatin.
On June 13, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product should be sold at private or puLlic sale by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.