12199. Adulteration and misbranding of frencb dressing.    TJ.  S. v.  140  Cases
*    *    *.     (F. D. C. No. 22449.    Sample.No. 50856-H.)
LIBEL FILED :   January 29,1947, Northern District of Iowa.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : Between the approximate dates of August 5 and December 
18,1946, by the Kaplan Wholesale Grocer Co., from Chicago, Ill.
PRODUCT: French dressing. 55 cases, each containing 12 16-ounce bottles, 40 
cases, each containing 24 8-ounce bottles, and 45 cases, containing mixed 
16-, 12-, and 8-ounce bottles, at Sioux City, Iowa.
LABEL IN PART: "Maurice's French Dressing * * * Mfg. by George Im- 
porting Co.   Chicago."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (2), the article contained 
an added deleterious substance, mineral oil, which is unsafe within the mean- 
ing of the law since it is a substance not required in the production of the 
article and could have been avoided by good manufacturing practice; Section 
402 (b) (1), valuable constituents, edible vegetable oil and sugar, had been 
in whole or in part omitted from the article; and, Section 402 (b) (2), a prod- 
uct containing nonnutritive mineral oil and saccharin had been substituted 
in whole or in part for french dressing containing edible vegetable oil and sugar. 
Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the label statement "French Dressing" was 
false and misleading.
DISPOSITION : March 4, 1947. No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.