7860. Adulteration of gelatin. TJ. S. * * * v. Wilton H. Gage (W. H. Gage 
Glue Co.). Plea of guilty to count 1 of information. Fine, $50 and 
costs.     Count 3 dismissed.     (F. & D. No. 9433.    I. S. No. 12707-m.)
On March 5, 3919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information in 2 counts 
against Wilton H. Gage, trading as W. H. Gage Glue Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleg- 
ing shipment by said defendant in the first count of said information, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 10, 1917, from the State of 
Missouri into the State of Kentucky, of a quantity of gelatin which was 
adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the presence of excessive amounts of zinc, and that the product, 
dissolved in water slightly acidified with hydrochloric acid, gave a distinct 
odor of glue.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, glue, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce 
and lower and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substituted in part 
for gelatin, which the article purported to be, and for the further reason that 
the product contained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient, to wit, 
zinc, which might render it injurious to health.
On September 26, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to count 1 
of the information, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs. The second 
count of the information was dismissed.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.