NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2194.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF VANILLA EXTRACT.
On November 4, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an 
information against the Ferris-Noeth-Stern Co. (Inc.), Baltimore, Md., 
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on August 1, 1911, from the State of Maryland into the 
State of Virginia of a quantity of vanilla extract which was adulter- 
ated and misbranded. The product was labeled: "Extract Vanilla 
No. 2, Bakers. Artificially Colored. Ferris-Noeth-Stern Co. Manu- 
facturing Chemists and Jobbers in Bakers', Confectioners' and Bottlers' 
Supplies, No. 219 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, Md."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed the following results: Vanillin, 0.15 per 
cent; coumarin, 0.13 percent; iodin test, positive; lead number at 44°, 
0.09; caramel, present. Adulteration of the product was alleged in 
the information for the reason that a certain substance, to wit, an 
imitation extract of vanilla, had been mixed and packed with it so as 
to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength and 
for the further reason that said product was colored in a manner 
whereby inferiority was concealed, to wit, by the use of caramel. 
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the label on the product 
bore a statement in substance and to the effect that the product was 
extract of vanilla/ which said statement was false and misleading in 
that the product was not a genuine extract of vanilla, conforming to 
the commercial standard of such article, but was an imitation extract 
of vanilla. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the 
product was labeled and branded so as to deceive and mislead the 
purchaser, being labeled "Extract Vanilla," whereas in truth and in 
fact it was not extract of vanilla but was an imitation extract of 
vanilla.
On November 4, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
nolo contendere to the information and the court imposed a fine of $5.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 10, 1913.
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