1398. Adulteration and misbranding of vanilla extract. IT. S. v. 600, 324, and 
396 Bottles of Vanilla Extract. Default decrees of condemnation and 
destruction. (F. D. C. No. 3109. Sample Nos. 15748-E, 15749-E, 39221-E, 
39222-E.)
The resins found in this product did not possess the characteristics of true 
vanilla resins.
On September 28 and October 6, 1940, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Missouri filed libels against 1,320 bottles of vanilla extract 
at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com-
merce within the period from on or about July 15 to August 3, 1940, by the 
Midwest Laboratories of Chicago, Ill., from New York, N. Y.; and charging 
that it was adulterated and misbranded. It was labeled in part: (Bottles) "Pure 
Extract Vanilla."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that imitation vanilla extract 
had been substituted wholly or in part for pure extract of vanilla; in that in- 
feriority had been concealed through the addition of foreign resins; and in that 
foreign resins had been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to 
make it appear better or of greater value than it was.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Pure Extract 
Vanilla" was false and misleading as applied to imitation vanilla extract; and 
in that it was offered for sale under the name of another food. It was alleged 
to be misbranded further in that it was an imitation of another food and its 
label did not bear, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imita- 
tion" and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
On November 8, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.