NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2148.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF CATSUP.
On June 12, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against Schwabacher Bros. & Co., a corpora- 
tion, Seattle, Wash., alleging shipment by said company, in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 22, 1911, from the State 
of Washington into the Territory of Alaska of a quantity of catsup 
which was adulterated and misbranded. The product bore no label 
but was invoiced and sold as catsup.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Total solids (per 
cent by weight), 12.64; insoluble solids (per cent by weight), 1.74; 
soluble solids (per cent by weight), 10.90; ratio soluble to insoluble 
solids, 6.25; ash (per cent by weight), 2.81; sodium chloride (per cent 
by weight), 2.15; alkalinity of ash, cc N/10 acid per gram, 1.00; 
reducing sugars before inversion (per cent by weight), 4.06; reducing 
sugars after inversion (per cent by weight), 5.26; sucrose (per cent 
by weight), 1.14; polarization after inversion, —2.1° V.; sodium 
benzoate (per cent by weight), 0.18; coal-tar color, absent. Adul- 
teration of the product was alleged in the information for the reason 
that sodium benzoate had been substituted in part for the genuine 
article. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the product 
was so labeled and branded as to deceive and mislead, being labeled 
"Catsup," thereby purporting to be catsup; whereas, in truth and in 
fact, it was catsup and benzoate of soda.
On August 29, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25, with 
costs taxed at $22.65.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 26, 1912.
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