(ST.  J.  5.)
MISBRANDING OF VANILLA EXTRACT.
In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Food and 
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and of regulation 6 of the rules and 
regulations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on 
the 26th day of May, 1908, in the United States district court for 
the western district of New York, in a criminal prosecution by the 
United States against C. B. Woodworth Sons Company ^ a corpora- 
tion conducting business in New York and elsewhere, for violations 
of section 2 of the aforesaid act in shipping and delivering for ship- 
ment from New York to Ohio an adulterated and misbranded 
vanilla extract, the said C. B. Woodworth Sons Company entered 
pleas of guilty, whereupon the court imposed upon it a fine of $100 
in respect to the shipment of misbranded extract, and suspended 
sentence in respect to the shipment of adulterated extract.
The following is a statement of facts upon which the case is based: 
On August 7, 1907, an inspector of the Department of Agriculture 
purchased from Colter & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, a sample of food 
product labeled " Double Extract of Vanilla, for flavoring ice creams, 
custards, sauces, jellies, and pastry, C. B. Woodworth Sons Co., 
Rochester, N. Y." The product was duly analyzed in the Bureau of 
Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, and the following results 
were obtained and stated:
Volume   (cc) 
122
Vanillin  (per cent) 
0.049
Resins 
Practically none.
Coal-tar dye 
Present.
In " Standards of Purity for Food Products," Circular No. 19,
Office of the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, established under
authority of the act of March 3, 1903, vanilla extract is defined as
follows:
Vanilla extract is a flavoring extract prepared from vanilla bean, with or 
without sugar or glycerin, and contains in one hundred (100) cubic centimeters 
the soluble matters from not less than ten (10) grams of vanilla bean.
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It was thus apparent that the article was both adulterated and 
misbranded; adulterated because it was not vanilla extract but a 
mere imitation, colored with a coal-tar dye to make it resemble real 
vanilla extract. It was also a substitution of an imitation for a 
genuine food article.
It was misbranded because labeled " Double Extract of Vanilla," 
when it was in fact an imitation of that article, containing a mere 
trace of vanilla and a coal-tar dye to impart the color of pure extract. 
The Secretary of Agriculture having afforded the manufacturers 
an opportunity to show any fault or error in the aforesaid analysis, 
and they having failed to do so, the facts were duly reported to the 
Attorney-General, who referred the case to the United States attor- 
ney for the western district of New York, who filed two informations 
against said C. B. Woodworth Sons Company, with the result herein- 
before stated.
H. W. WILEY, 
F. L. DUNLAP, 
GEO. P. MCCABE, 
Board of Food and Drug Inspection. 
Approved:
W. L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jidy 17, 1908.