18271. Adulteration and misbranding of tgkimymilk cheese.   U. S. v. 9,979 Pounds
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more than 50 percent of moisture had been substituted for skim-milk cheese 
; for manufacturing. • '<'¦ 
Misbranding, Section 403 (g), the product purported to be and was repre- 
sented as skim-milk cheese for manufacturing, a food for which a definition 
and standard of identity has been prescribed by the regulations, and it failed 
to conform to such definition and standard. The regulations provide that skim- 
milk cheese for manufacturing contains not more than 50 percent of moisture 
and is coated with-blue-colored paraffin or other tightly adhering coating, 
colored blue, whereas the article contained more than 50 percent of moisture 
and dill not bear a blue-colored coating. The article failed also to.conform 
to the definition, and standard since its label failed ,to bear the, name,of .the 
food specified in such definition and standard, namely, "Skim-Milk, Cheese 
for ,manufacturing." 
DISPOSITION : January 18,1952. Sunette Foods, Inc., New York, N. Y., claimant, 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation T was 
r entered and it was ordered by the court that the' product be released' under 
hohd, conditioned that it( be brought into compliancewith thelaw, under the 
supervision of the Food and Drug Administration, b^ cpating'bi'the product 
with a blue coating, by reducing the moisture content to hot oyer 50 percent, 
; and by properly Relabeling It      ¦;'i:;* ,J" ' 
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