D188. Adulteration of   nonalcoholic   beverage.     U.   S.     *      *      *     v.   <i  Kcss
* * * of Nonalcoholic Beverage * * *. Default decree of con- 
demnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F.'& D. No. 13857. I. S. 
Nos. 8433-t, 8434-t, 8435-t.    S. No. E-2864.)
On November 12, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, 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 con- 
demnation of 3 kegs of nonalcoliolic beverage, labeled in part " Non-Alcoholic 
Artificial Flavor and Color" (one keg each of " Port Hot Punch Flavor," 
"Roman Punch Flavor," and "Champaign Cordial Flavor"), consigned on or 
about September 20, 1920, remaining in the Original packages at Baltimore,' Md., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Red Cross Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 
Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Maryland, 
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 
product which had no food value, to wit, saccharin, had been mixed and packed 
with, and substituted in part for, the article, and for the further reason that the 
article contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, to wit, saccharin, 
which might render it injurious* to health.
On December 21, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judge 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the. 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.