10327.?Adulteration   and   misbranding1   of   orange   aQiieeze.     TJ.   S.     *     *      *
v. 24 Gallons of * * * Orange Squeeze. Consent decree ?f?
condemnation    and    forfeitnre.    Product    released    under    bond.
(F. & D. No. 15405.    I. S. No. 6985-t.     S. No. E-3591.)
On September 29, 1921. the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of New York, 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?
condemnation of 24 gallons of orange squeeze, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been?
shipped by the National Fruit Flavor Co., New Orleans, La., on or about July?
16, 1921, and transported from the State of Louisiana into the State of New?
York, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sub??
stances, to wit, sugar sirup, alcohol, orange oil, and gum, had been mixed and?
packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and?
strength and had been substituted wholly or in part for a product containing an?
appreciable amount of orange juice, which the said article purported to be.?
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the article had been mixed?
and colored in a manner whereby damage and inferiority had been concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the label on the package con??
taining the article bore a statement regarding the said article and the ingredi??
ents and substances contained therein, to wit, " Orange Squeeze * * * Pre??
pared from the Natural Fruit * * * For Orangeade, Punches * * *?
National Fruit Flavor Company," which was false and misleading and deceived
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and misled the purchaser when applied to a product containing the above-?
named ingredients and containing little or no orange juice. Misbranding was?
alleged for the further reason that the article was an imitation of, and was?
offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article.
On March 3, 1922, the National Fruit Flavor Co., New Orleans. La., claimant,?
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to a decree,?
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by?
the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of?
the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $250,?
in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the aricle be?
labeled "Squeeze (Orange Flavor)  Imitation."
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.