10191.?Adulteration and  misbranding?  of  evaporated  milk.     U.   S.     *     *      *
v. Van Camp Packing- Co., a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine,?
$100 and costs.     (P. & D. No. 9243.    I. S. No. 3720-m.)
On December 9, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Van Camp Packing Co., a corporation, having a place of business at Adrian.?
Mich., alleging shipment by said company, under the name of the Van. Camp?
Products Co., in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 23, 1916,?
from the State of Michigan into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of?
evaporated milk which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was?
labeled in part: " Van Camp's Sterilized Evaporated Milk * * * The Van?
Camp Packing Co.    Indianapolis, Ind."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
an insufficiently condensed milk product, low in fat, had been substituted in?
whole or in part for evaporated milk, which the said article purported to be.
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Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " Evapo??
rated Milk," borne on the labels attached to the cans containing the article, re??
garding the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was?
false and misleading in that it represented that the said article was evaporated?
milk, and for the further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as?
to mislead and deceive the purchaser into the belief that it was evaporated?
milk, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not evaporated milk but was an in??
sufficiently condensed milk product, low in fat.
On September 14, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on?
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.