8595. Adulteration and inisbrandingr of Mothers Brand Pure Flavor of?
Vanilla and Lemon, TJ. S. * * * v. 8 Gross Bottles of Mothers?
Brand Pure Flavor of Vanilla and 4 Gross Bottles of Mothers?
Brand Pare Flavor of Lemon. Default decrees of condemnation,?
forfeiture, and destruction. '(P. & D. No. 11565. I. 8. Nos. &378-r,?
8379-r.     S. No. C-1646.)
On December 23, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of In??
diana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district libels for the seizure and con??
demnation of 8 gross bottles of Mothers Brand Pure Flavor of Vanilla and 4?
gross bottles of Mothers Brand Pure Flavor of Lemon, consigned on or about?
July 28, 1919, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Indianapolis,?
Ind., alleging that the articles had been shipped by the National Food Mfg. Co.,?
St. Louis, Mo., arriving on or about August 11, 1919, and transported from the?
State of Missouri into the State of Indiana, and charging adulteration and?
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The articles were labeled?
in part, " Mothers Brand Pure Flavor of Vanilla " (or " Lemon ") " Guaranteed?
Fine Quality    *    *    *    The National Food Manufacturing Co., St. Louis."
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in substance in the libels for the?
reason that certain substances other than vanilla or vanilla extract, or lemon?
or lemon extract, as the case might be, had been mixed therewith so as to re??
duce, lower, and injiiriously affect their quality and strength. Adulteration?
was alleged for the further reason that dilute vanilla extract or dilute lemon?
extract, as the case might be, had been substituted wholly or in part for the?
article.
It was alleged in substance in the libels that the articles were misbranded?
for the reason that the labels aforesaid on the bottles, regarding the products?
therein, were false and misleading in that the articles were not the products?
which they purported to be, and for the further reason that said labels were?
calculated to deceive and mislead the purchasers thereof in that the articles?
were represented to: be pure vanilla extract or lemon extract, as the case might?
be, whereas, in fact and in truth, they were diluted vanilla or lemon extract,?
respectively. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the articles?
were imitations of, and were offered for sale under the names set forth in?
their respective labels and were not the products named therein.
On June 23, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments?
of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the products be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.