10061.?Adulteration  of grape flavor.    TJ.  S.     *     *     *     v. W. B. Wood Mfg.
Co., a Corporation.    Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, 825 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 12814.    I. S. No. 7576-r.)
On September 29, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District?
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by?
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 11,?
1919, from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of?
grape flavor which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: "Soluble?
Emulsion Concord Grape Flavor * * * Sole Manufacturers W. B. Wood?
Mfg. Co.   Saint Louis, Missouri,   *    *    *"
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Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it was a mixture of vegetable gum, sugar, and water,?
artificially colored and artificially flavored.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that an imitation product composed of a vegetable gum, sugar, and water,?
artificially colored and artificially flavored, had been substituted for soluble?
emulsion Concord grape flavor, which the said article purported to be. Adul??
teration was alleged for the further reason that the article was a product?
inferior to soluble emulsion Concord grape flavor, to wit, a product composed?
of a vegetable gum, sugar, and water, prepared in imitation of, and artificially?
colored and flavored so as to simulate the appearance and the flavor of, soluble?
emulsion Concord grape flavor and in a manner whereby its inferiority to?
soluble emulsion Concord grape flavor was'concealed.
On November 1, 1921, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was en??
tered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25?
and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.