12508. Adulteration and misbranding of jellies.    IT. S. v. J*. P. Adams Co., 
Inc., a Coz*poi*ation.     Plea of nolo contendere.     Fine, $25.     (F. & D.
No. 18345.    I   S. Nos. 1724-v, 1725-v, 1726-V, 1727-V.)
On March 31, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 F. P. Adams Co., Inc., a corporation, Boston, Mass., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about October 31, 
1922, from the State of Massachusetts into the State of New Hampshire, of 
quantities of jellies which were adulterated and misbranded. The articles 
were labeled in part: (Jar) "Pure Currant and Apple" (or "Grape and 
Apple," or "Strawberry and Apple," or "Raspberry and Apple") "Jelly 
F. P. Adams Co. Inc. Boston, Mass. Net Weight 7 Ozs."
Analysis of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that they were currant-flavored, grape-flavored, straw- 
berry-flavored, or raspberry-flavored glucose pectin jellies, as the case might 
be, artificially colored with a coal-tar dye.
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the information for the reason 
that currant-flavored, grape-flavored, strawberry-flavored, or raspberry-flavored 
glucose pectin jellies, as the case might be, had been substituted for the said 
articles. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the articles 
were products inferior to pure currant and apple jelly, pure grape and 
apple jelly, pure strawberry and apple jelly, or pure raspberry and apple jelly, 
as the case might be, and were artificially colored with amaranth 107, so as 
to simulate the appearance of the said articles and in a manner whereby their 
inferiority to the said articles was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, " Pure 
Currant and Apple Jelly," " Pure Grape and Apple Jelly," " Pure Strawberry 
and Apple Jelly," and " Pure Raspberry and Apple Jelly," borne on the labels 
attached to the jars containing the respective articles, were false and mis- 
leading in that the said statements represented that the articles consisted 
wholly of pure fruit jellies as alleged in the labels, and for the further 
reason that they were labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the 
purchaser into the belief that they consisted wholly of pure fruit jellies as 
alleged in the said labels, whereas, in truth and in fact, they did not so con- 
sist but did consist of currant-flavored, grape-flavored, strawberry-flavored, or 
raspberry-flavored pectin jellies, as the case might be, artificially colored. 
Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the articles were imita- 
tions of and were offered for sale and sold under the distinctive names of 
other articles.
On April 18, 1924, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was entered 
on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.