(N. J. 130.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF PEPPER.
(AS TO PBESENCE OF WHEAT MEAL, SEED COATS, COCOANTJT SHELLS, ETC.)
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?
April 26, 1909, in the United States district court for the western?
district of Missouri, in a prosecution by the United States against?
Long Brothers Grocery Company, a corporation of Kansas City,?
Mo., for violation of section 2 of the aforesaid act in the shipment?
and delivery for shipment from Missouri to Kansas of a ground?
black pepper which was adulterated and misbranded in this, that it?
contained pepper, wheat meal, tissues of seed, flaxseed meal, buck??
wheat flour, cocoanut shells, leguminous seed, and coffee, the said?
defendant having entered a plea of guilty the court imposed upon?
it a fine of $25.
The facts in the case were as follows:
On July 29, 1907, an inspector of the Department of Agriculture?
purchased in Kansas City, Kans., a sample of a product purporting?
to be ground pepper. This sample formed part of a shipment made?
by Long Brothers Grocery Company, Kansas City, Mo., to W. M.?
Koffler, Kansas City, Kans., on or about May 16, 1907. The sample?
was subjected to analysis in the Bureau of Chemistry, United States?
Department of Agriculture, and it was found that a number of adul??
terants were present, of which wheat meal and one or two tissues,?
probably seed coats, were most numerous, and in smaller amounts?
were flaxseed meal, buckwheat flour, cocoanut shells or tissues?
of similar character, traces of a leguminous seed, coffee, and red?
pepper. It was apparent that the article was both adulterated?
and misbranded within the meaning of sections 7 and 8 of the?
act; adulterated because other substances had been mixed with?
the pepper so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality?
and strength, and misbranded in that it purported to be ground?
pepper, when, as a matter of fact, analysis showed that it consisted?
of ground pepper and a mixture of other substances.
The Secretary of Agriculture having, on December 5, 1907,?
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 and the case re??
ferred to the United States attorney for the western district of?
Missouri, who filed an information against the said Long Brothers?
Grocery Company, with the result hereinbefore stated.
H. W. WILEY,?
F. L. DUNLAP,?
GEO. P. MCCABE,
Board of Food and Drug Inspection.?
Approved:
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 27, 1909.