13775. Adulteration and misbranding; of lemon extract. U. S. v. Shepard 
Baking- Powder Co., a Corporation. Plea of nolo contendere. 
Fine, $100.     (F. & D. No. 15575.    I.  S. No. 177-t.)
On January 10, 1922, 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 Shepard Baking Powder Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 
21, 1921, from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of 
lemon extract which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled 
in part: (Bottle) "Keystone Brand Terpeneless Lemon Extract * * * 
Manufactured by Shepard Baking Pwd. Co. St. Louis."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was a dilute terpeneless extract of lemon, deficient 
in citral.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a diluted terpeneless lemon extract, deficient in citral, had been mixed and 
packed therewith so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality 
and strength and had been substituted in part for terpeneless lemon extract, 
which the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " Terpene- 
less Lemon Extract," borne on the labels attached to the bottles containing 
the article, was false and misleading in that the said statement represented 
that the article was genuine terpeneless lemon extract, and for the further 
reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the pur- 
chaser into the belief that it was genuine terpeneless lemon extract, whereas, 
in truth and in fact, it was not genuine terpeneless lemon extract but was a 
diluted terpeneless extract of lemon, deficient in citral.
On May 15, 1924, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was entered 
on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.