F. & D. No. 4103.
I. S. No. 12335-d.	
Issued March 8, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE   OF   THE   SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2022.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On July 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of?
Connecticut^ acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture,?
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an?
information against Steve Febus, Colchester, Conn., alleging ship??
ment by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about?
September 7, 1911, from the State of (Connecticut into the State of?
Rhode Island, of a quantity of milk which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: This product con??
tained 800,000 organisms per cubic centimeter developing on plain?
agar at 37? C. after 2 days' incubation; 1,500,000 organisms per cubic?
centimeter developing on litmus lactose agar at 25? C. after 2 days'?
incubation, all of which were of the acid type; 1,000,000 gas-produc??
ing organisms per cubic centimeter in bile fermentation tubes; 100,000?
streptococci per cubic centimeter. Adulteration of the product was?
alleged in the information for the reason that it consisted in part?
of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal or vegetable substance.
On July 19, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere?
and the court imposed a fine of $40.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting SecretaryVf Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. O, November ?5,1912.
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