27307. Adulteration   and misbranding of  lemon  juice.     17.   S.  v.   14   Cases   of
Lemon    Juice.     Default    decree    of    condemnation    and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 39020.    Sample no. 25564-C.)
This article involved lemon juice that was diluted with water.
On February 4, 1937, the United Spates attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 14 cases of lemon juice 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about July 18, 1936, by the Empire Freight Co., from Los Angeles, 
Calif., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. It was labeled in part: (Cases) "Golden Flow Brand Pure Lemon 
Juice Pure Foods Corp.   Los Angeles, Calif."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a mixture of lemon juice 
and water had been substituted wholly or in part for lemon juice, which it 
purported to be, and in that it had been mixed in a manner whereby inferiority 
was concealed.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Pure Lemon Juice" 
was false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser 
when applied to lemon juice diluted with water; and in that it was an imita- 
tion of and offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, 
lemon juice.
On April 30, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
H. A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.