87.19. Adulteration of root beer. V. S. * * * v. lOfi Bars-els of Root?
Beer. Consent decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc??
tion.     (F. & D. No. 13818.    I.  S. No.  4137-t.    S. No.   C-2562.)
On October 27. 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District
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Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 103 barrels of root beer, at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article?
had been shipped by the Almanaris Mineral Spring Co., Waukesha, Wis., March?
27 and August 15 and 17, 1920, and transported from the State of Wisconsin?
into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a?
substance, to wit, saccharin, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to?
lower, reduce, and iujiiriorsly affect its quality and.strength, for the further?
reason that saccharin had been mixed and packed therewith in a manner?
whereby damage and inferiority were concealed, and for the further reason?
that the article contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, to wit,?
saccharin, which might hare rendered it injurious to health.
On December 9, 1920, the Almanaris Mineral Spring Co., claimant, Waukesha,?
Wis., having entered an appearance and admitted all the material allegations?
set forth in the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,?
and it was ordered by the court that Hie product be destroyed by the United?
States marshal, and it was further ordered that the containers of said article?
be delivered to said claimant upon payment of all costs of the proceeding.
K. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.