7474. Adulteration and misbranding of maple sirup.    V. S. v. 22 Cases of Maple
Sirup (and 4 other seizure actions against maple sirup.) Decrees of 
condemnation. Product ordered delivered to government or charitable 
institutions. (F. D. C. Nos. 13029, 13031, 13032, 13094, 13095. Sample 
Nos. 54845-F, 54851-F, 71652-F to 71654-F, inel., 79287-F, 79288-F.)
LIBELS FILED: Between July 29 and August 10, 1944, Eastern District of Vir- 
ginia, Western District of Washington, and Eastern District of Wisconsin.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: From on or about May 9 to June 22, 1944, by the Ameri- 
can Roland Food Co., from New York, N. Y.
PRODUCT: 17 cases at Arlington, Va., 68 cases at Seattle, Wash., and 140 cases at 
Milwaukee, Wis., each case containing 24   6-ounce bottles of maple sirup.
LABEL IN PART: (Bottles) "100% Grade A Pure Vermont Maple Syrup Sap 
[design of a maple leaf and maple trees] Tiffany Extract Co. * * * Pater- 
son, N. J.," or "Roland 100%" Grade A Pure Vermont Maple Syrup."
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), a valuable constituent, 
maple sugar or maple sugar sirup, had been in whole or in part omitted from 
the articles; and, Section 402 (b) (2), in the Washington and Wisconsin lots, 
sugar sirup, containing little or no true maple sugar or maple sirup, and in 
the Virginia lots, sugar sirup containing more than 35 percent water and little 
or no true maple sirup, had been substituted for maple sirup, which the' 
article purported and was represented to be. 
\
Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the statement, "100% Grade A Pure Vermont 
Maple Syrup Sap," the design of a maple leaf and maple trees, and the state- 
ment, "100% Grade A Pure Vermont Maple Syrup," were false and mislead- 
ing; Section 403 (c), the article in the Washington and Virginia lots was an 
imitation of another food, maple sirup, and its label failed to bear, in type 
of uniform size and prominence, the word "Imitation" and, immediately there- 
after, the name of the food imitated; and, Section 403 (i) (2), the article 
was fabricated from two or more ingredients and its labels failed to bear the 
common or usual name of each such ingredient. 
DISPOSITION: Between September 25 and November 28, 1944. The shipper 
of the Arlington lot having consented to its condemnation, and no claimant 
having appeared for the remaining lots, judgments of condemnation were 
entered and the product was ordered delivered to government or charitable 
institutions.