NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 981, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
MISBRANDING OF COFFEE.
On or about October 6, 1910, William B. Carhart and H. B. Car- 
hart, doing business under the firm name and style of Carhart & 
Bro., shipped from the State of New York into the State of Ala- 
bama a consignment of coffee labeled as follows: " Three pounds full 
weight Carhart & Bro. celebrated flavor of Mocha and Java roasted 
coffee. The coffee in this package we guarantee to be as represented, 
a pure coffee, especially selected and the acme of perfection for fine 
drinking. Carhart & Bro., New York." Samples from this ship- 
ment were procured and examined by the Bureau of Chemistry, 
United States Department of Agriculture, and the product was found 
to be a mixture consisting of one-half Dutch East Indian and one-half 
Bogota. As the examination and report thereon showed that the 
product was misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drugs 
Act of June 30, 1906, the Secretary of Agriculture afforded the said 
William B. Carhart and H. B. Carhart and the party from whom 
the samples were procured opportunities for hearings. As it ap- 
peared after hearings held that the shipment was made in violation 
of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the 
Attorney-General with a statement of the evidence upon which to base 
a prosecution.
In due course a criminal information was filed in the Circuit Court 
of the United States for the Southern District of New York against 
the said William B. Carhart and H. B. Carhart charging the above 
shipment and alleging that the product so shipped was misbranded 
in that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead 
the purchaser, because said label represented that the product con- 
sisted of Mocha and Java coffee; whereas, in truth and in fact, it; 
consisted of Dutch East Indian and Bogota coffee.
On April 7, 1911, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the 
above information, whereupon the court imposed a fine of $25.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs 
Act of June 30, 1906.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 80, 1911.
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