16850. Adulteration and Misbranding of Wood's Special Quality sweet- 
ener. TT. S. v. 2 Tins of Wood's Special Quality Sweetener. De- 
fault  decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 14878.    I. S. No. 6430-t.    S. No. &-3320.)
On April 18, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 2 tins of Wood's Special Quality sweetener at Sayreville, N. J., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, 
Mo., on or about March 29, 1921, and transported from the State of Missouri 
into the State of New Jersey, and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "Wood's 
Special Quality Sweetener * * * W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. * * * St. 
Louis, Mo."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that substances, 
to wit, sucrose and saccharin, had been mixed and packed therewith so as- 
to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength; in that 
substances, to wit, sucrose and saccharin, had been substituted wholly or in 
part for food sweetener, to wit, sugar, which the article purported to be; and 
in that it contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, to wit, 
saccharin, which might have rendered it injurious to health.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the labels bore the statement, 
to wit, " Wood's Special Quality Sweetener," which was false and misleading 
in that the statement led the purchaser to believe that the article was a 
concentrated sugar or sweetener of special quality and strength, whereas it 
was not sugar and was not a sweetener of special quality and strength, but 
was a product composed of a mixture of saccharin and sucrose. Misbranding 
was alleged for the further reason that the article was a product composed 
of sucrose and saccharin prepared in imitation of sugar in crystal form and 
was offered for sale in said form; for the further reason that it was labeled 
as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that 
it was a concentrated sugar of special quality, whereas it was not; for the 
further reason that the labels thereof misled the purchaser into the belief that 
the article was a specially prepared sugar for sweetening foods, whereas it 
was not a specially prepared sugar, but was composed of saccharin and sucrose.
On July 22, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AJRTHTJK M. HYDE, Secretary of Affrioulture.