F. & D. No. 3609.?
I. S. No. 2131-d.	
Issued October 26, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1747.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBBANDING OF EYAFOKATED  MILK.
On April 16, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Western?
District of Washington, acting on a report of the Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said?
district an information against the West Coast Grocery Co., a corpo??
ration, Tacoma, Wash., alleging shipment by said company, in vio??
lation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 22, 1911, from?
the State of Washington into the Territory of Alaska, of a quantity?
of evaporated milk which was misbranded. The product was?
labeled: " Cascade Brand Milk. Cascade Brand. A Sterilized?
Evaporated Milk. Put up in sanitary cans no solder or acid used.?
Guaranteed to comply with the Pure Food Laws. Manufactured by?
Snohomish Condensed Milk Co., Snohomish, Wash."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: Water, 77.64 per?
cent; fat (by Roese-Gottlieb), 7.06 per cent; protein (N >< 6.38),?
5.90 per cent; lactose (by difference), 8.22 per cent; ash, 1.18 per?
cent; total solids (by drying), 22.36 per cent; per cent of fat in?
total solids, 31.6; refraction of fat at 40? C, 1.4548; net weight,?
16TV ounces; milk lumpy and in poor condition. Misbranding was?
alleged in the information for the reason that the statement " Evap??
orated Milk " borne on the label of the product was false and mis??
leading because it would mislead and deceive the purchaser into the?
belief that the product was evaporated milk conforming to the?
commercial standard of such article, whereas in truth and in fact it?
was not sufficiently concentrated to be entitled to that designation;?
and the product was further misbranded within the meaning of the
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Act of Congress of June 30, 1906, in that it was labeled and branded?
so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, being labeled and branded?
"Evaporated Milk", thereby purporting that it was evaporated?
milk conforming to the standard of such article, whereas in truth and?
in fact it was not sufficiently concentrated to be entitled to that?
designation.
On May 22, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty?
to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs, in?
the sum of $26.16.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 14-, 1912.
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