11216.?Adulteration   of  lemonade  sirup.     U.   S.   v.  John  J.  Meier   (John   J.
Meier & Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 16002.    I.  S.?
No. 167-t.)
On May 15, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
Distric
t Court of the United States for said district an information against?
John J. Meier, trading as John J. Meier & Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment?
by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July?
19, 1921, from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity?
of lemonade sirup which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part:?
(Bottle) " Minit Maid Strictly Pure Sugar Lemonade Syrup * * * John?
J. Meier & Co. St. Louis;" (neck of bottle)  "Pure Lemonade."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it was an artificially colored and flavored imitation?
of lemonade sirup which contained no lemon juice.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that an artificially colored and flavored product had been substituted for pure?
lemonade and for sugar lemonade sirup, to wit, a mixture of lemon juice and?
sugar sirup, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged?
for the further reason that it was a product inferior to pure lemonade and in??
ferior to sugar lemonade sirup, to wit, a mixture which contained little, if any,?
lemon juice, which mixture was artificially flavored with phosphoric acid and?
with flavor derived from oil of lemon or limes and was artificially colored?
with a certain coal-tar dye, to wit, tartrazine, so as to simulate the taste and?
appearance of pure lemonade and of sugar lemonade sirup, and in a manner?
whereby its inferiority to said pure lemonade and sugar lemonade sirup was?
concealed.
On October 23, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the infor??
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.