30956. Adulteration and misbranding of cod-liver oil. U. S. v. Royal Manu- 
facturing Company of Duquesne, Kolomon Kovacs, Samuel S. Kovacs, 
and Martin Kovacs.     Plea of nolo contendere.     Fine, $100.     (F. & D.
No. 42682.    Sample No. 15851-D.)
This product contained smaller amounts of vitamin A and vitamin D than 
it was represented to contain.
On May 16, 1939, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Royal Manufacturing Company of 
Duquesne, a corporation trading at Kansas City, Mo., and Kolomon Kovacs, 
Samuel S. Kovacs, and Martin Kovacs, officers of the said corporation, alleging 
shipment by them on or about September 26, 1937, from the State of Missouri 
into the State of Oklahoma, of a quantity of cod liver oil that was adulterated 
and misbranded. The article was labeled in part: "Double 'D' laboratories, 
Chicago, U. S. A."
Adulteration was alleged in that the strength of the article fell below the 
professed standard and quality under which it was sold, in that it was rep- 
resented to contain not less than 2,250 U. S. P. XI units of vitamin A per 
gram and to contain double the amount of vitamins D and A found in the 
best grade of U. S. P. oil; whereas it contained not more than 1,125 U. S. P. 
units of vitamin A per gram and did not contain double the amount of 
vitamins D and A found in the best grade U. S. P. oil.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement, "Contains not less 
than 2,250 U. S. P. XI units * * * per gram," borne on the carton, was 
false and misleading.
On October 16, 1939, pleas of nolo contendere having been entered, the court 
imposed a fine of $100 to cover all defendants.
GROVER B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.