NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1158.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VANILLA FLAVOR.
On May 12, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Louisiana, acting upon the report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed information in the District Court of the United States 
for said district against the Pan American Manufacturing Co., a 
corporation, alleging shipment by it, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on or about July 25, 1910, from the State of Louisiana 
into the Territory of New Mexico of a quantity of vanilla flavor 
which was adulterated and misbranded. The product was labeled: 
" High Power Vanilla Flavor, Pan American Mfg. Co. 3,000-3,016 
Royal Street, New Orleans, La."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture of samples of this product showed the fol- 
lowing results: Solids 54.4 per cent; ash 0.62 per cent; vanillin 0.101 
per cent; coumarin 0.152 per cent; vanilla resins, qualitative, none; 
color, natural. Adulteration was alleged for the reason that a prepa- 
ration containing an extract of tonka bean had been mixed and 
packed with the said product so as to reduce and lower and injuri- 
ously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted wholly 
or in part for the genuine vanilla extract. Misbranding was alleged 
for the reason that said product was represented as a vanilla flavor, 
when, in fact, it was a preparation consisting essentially of tonka 
extract, which said representation was, therefore, false and mis- 
leading.
On June 15, 1911, the defendant company pleaded guilty and was 
fined $10 and costs.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., October 5, 1911.
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