13709. Adulteration  of  Nectar Pinita  (pineapple  nectar).     U.   S.  v.  Rafael
Cabanas (La Oriental Carbonic Water Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, 
$25 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 19597.     I. S. No. 3548-v.)
On March 16, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Porto Rico, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against Rafael Cabanas, 
trading as La Oriental Carbonic Water Co., Santurce, P. R., alleging that on 
or about March 28, 1924, the said defendant did manufacture in the Territory 
of Porto Rico a quantity of Nectar Pinita (pineapple nectar) which was adul-
terated in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part: (Bottle) "La Oriental Carbonic Water Co. * * * Santurce, P. R 
Nectar Pinita." 
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, saccharin, had been substituted in part for Nectar Pinita, 
to wit, pineapple nectar, which the said article purported to be, and for the 
further reason that it contained an added deleterious ingredient, to wit, 
saccharin, which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On August 31, 1925, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.