13370. Adulteration and misbranding  of vanilla flavor.     U.  S. v.  Parlcer-
Browne   Co.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $25.      (F.  & D.   No.  9440.     I.   S. 
No. 17053-p.)
On December 12, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Texas, 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 Parker-Browne Co., a corporation, Fort Worth, Tex., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about March 29, 
1918, from the State of Texas into the State of New Mexico, of a quantity 
of vanilla flavor which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was 
labeled in part: " Our Special Brand Vanilla Flavor. A Compound Contains 
Added Color    *    *    *    Prepared By Parker-Browne Co. Fort Worth, Texas."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was a diluted extract of vanilla containing added 
coumarin and vanillin and colored with caramel.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that an artificially colored imitation product containing added vanillin and 
coumarin had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted in part 
for vanilla flavor, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was 
alleged for the further reason that it was an article inferior to vanilla flavor 
and was colored with caramel so as to simulate the appearance of vanilla flavor 
and in a manner whereby its inferiority to vanilla flavor was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, '' Vanilla 
Flavor," borne on the label attached to the keg containing the article, was 
false and misleading, in that the said statement represented that the article 
was vanilla flavor, and for the further reason that it was labeled as afore- 
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was 
vanilla flavor, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not vanilla flavor but was 
a product composed of an artificially colored imitation product containing 
added vanillin and coumarin.
On April 11, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.