8691. Adulteration and misbranding of sirup.    U.  S. v.  156 Jugs of Pancake
Syrup.    Default decree of condemnation.    Product ordered delivered to 
charitable institutions.    (F. D. C. No. 15365.    Sample No. 2224-H.)
LIBEL FILED:    March 10, 1945, Eastern District of Virginia.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about August 21, 1944, and January 2, 1945, by the 
Bev Co., from Hoboken, N. J.
PRODUCT:   156   1-gallon jugs of pancake sirup at Norfolk, Va.
LABEL, IN PART: (Jugs) "North Woods [design of woods] Institutional Size 
One Gallon Pure Pancake Syrup A 100% pure cane sugar syrup with a per- 
fect imitation maple flavor base of high quality."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), a valuable constituent, 
sugar, had been in part omitted from the article.
Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the label statements "Pure Pancake Syrup" 
and "North Woods," and the design of woods suggestive of the origin of the 
maple sirup, were misleading as applied to sugar, or sugars, and water which 
contained less sugar then is contained in cane sugar sirup or a pancake cane 
sugar sirup, which contained no maple sirup, and which was artificially flavored 
and colored to simulate maple sirup; and, Section 403 (k), the sirup contained 
artificial coloring, and it failed to bear labeling stating that fact.
DISPOSITION: April 28, 1945. 'No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered delivered to charitable 
institutions.