1893. Adulteration and misbranding of vanilla extract.    F.  S.  v. 594 and 645
Bottles of Vanilla Extract. Default decrees of condemnation and de- 
struction.    (F. D. C. Nos. 8770, 3843.    Sample Nos. 20750-E, 37146-E.)
This product contained resinous substances not found in genuine vanilla 
extract.
On or about February 10 and 20, 1941, the United States attorneys for the 
Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of Georgia filed libels 
against 594 bottles of vanilla extract at Camp Blanding, Fla., and 645 bottles 
of vanilla extract at Savannah, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about January 15, 1941, by Duke & Benedict Co. 
from New York, N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated and misbranded. 
The article was labeled in part: (Bottles) "Pure Extract Vanilla * * * Dis- 
tributors Huguenot Laboratories Mount Vernon, N. Y."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that an imitation vanilla extract 
containing resinous substances not found in genuine vanilla extract 
had been substituted wholly or in part for "Pure Vanilla Extract"; in that 
inferiority 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.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Pure Extract Vanilla" 
was false and misleading; in that it was offered for sale under the name of 
another food; and in that it was an imitation of another food and its label 
did not bear, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" and 
immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
On March 13 and 27, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgments of con- 
demnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.