F. & D. No. 3138.
S. No. 1142.	
Issued February 21, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 1944.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  AND  MISBRANDING  OF  YINEGAR.
On November 1, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern?
District of Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of?
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said?
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 25 barrels of?
vinegar remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in?
possession of Bemis Hooper Hays Co., Oshkosh, Wis., alleging that?
the product had been shipped on October 2, 1911, by B. T. Chandler?
& Son, Chicago, 111., and transported from the State of Illinois into?
th,e State of Wisconsin, and charging adulteration and misbranding?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled:?
"B. T. Chandler & Son Vinegar, 45 Grain, Chicago."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason?
that it had been mixed and diluted with acetic acid or distilled?
vinegar, and to such an extent and amount as to reduce, lower, and?
injuriously affect its quality, substance, and strength; that the said?
product was further adulterated in that it had been mixed and?
diluted to such an extent with acetic acid or distilled vinegar that?
said substance known as acetic acid or distilled vinegar had been?
wholly or in part substituted for the product of pure cider vinegar.?
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the barrels were labeled?
as set forth above, whereas the product was an imitation of cider?
vinegar and was offered for sale and sold in interstate commerce?
under the distinctive name of cider vinegar, when in truth and in?
fact the vinegar was not cider vinegar, but consisted largely of a?
mixture of dilute acetic acid or distilled vinegar; that the product?
Was further misbranded in that the label or brand bore the statement?
that it was vinegar in such form and display as to give the impression?
that the product was pure cider vinegar, when in truth and in fact?
an unlike substance, distilled vinegar, had been intermingled there??
with and substituted wholly or in part for pure cider vinegar; and
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that all of such statements on the labels were false and misleading?
and calculated to deceive and mislead the purchasers thereof.
On August 12, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the property,?
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was?
further ordered that the product should be sold by the United States?
marshal, or in lieu thereof that it should be destroyed.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 14, 1912.
1944