F. &D. No. 2802.
I. S. No. 2687-c.	
Issued December 17,1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1800.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF NUTMEGS.
On February 5, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern?
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis??
trict an information against Farrington & Whitney, a corporation,?
New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act, on May 25, 1911, from the State of New?
York into the State of Massachusetts of a quantity of nutmegs which?
were adulterated. The product was labeled: "Dutch East Indies?
P. B. L. Nutmegs, New York (33) Roys Laboratories, Boston, Mass."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: Containing worms?
or excreta, 94.4 per cent; passable, 5.6 per cent. Adulteration was?
alleged in the information for the reason that the product consisted?
in part of a filthy animal substance unfit for food, to wit, worms.
On April 1, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty?
to the information and the court imposed a fine of $200.
W. M. HATS,?
Acting Secretary oj Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 5, 1912.
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