NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 3336.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBEANDINO OF VINEGAR.
On October 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against the Central City Pickle Co., a corpo- 
ration, Peoria, Ill., alleging shipment by said company, in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on June 16, 1911, from the State of 
Illinois into the State of Iowa of a quantity of vinegar which was 
adulterated and misbranded. The product was labeled: (On barrels) 
" Charles Hewitt Sons Co., Distributors. Opal Brand Pure Cider 
Vinegar, Des Moines, Iowa."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed that a dilute solution of acetic acid 
and a product high in reducing sugar and foreign mineral matter 
prepared in imitation of cider vinegar had been mixed with it and 
substituted wholly or in part for it. Adulteration of the product 
was alleged in the information for the reason that a dilute solution 
of acetic acid or distilled vinegar and a product high in reducing 
sugar and foreign mineral matter had been substituted wholly or in 
part for pure cider vinegar. Misbranding was alleged for the reason 
that the statement " Pure Cider Vinegar," borne on the label, was 
false and misleading because it conveyed the impression that the 
product was pure cider vinegar, whereas, in truth and in fact, it 
consisted in whole or in part of a dilute solution of acetic acid or 
distilled vinegar and a product high in reducing sugar and mineral 
matter and it was not pure cider vinegar; and for the further reason 
that the product was labeled and branded so as to deceive and mis- 
lead the purchaser into the belief that the product was pure cider
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vinegar, it being labeled, to wit, " Pure Cider Vinegar," when, as a 
matter of fact, it consisted in whole or in part of a dilute solution 
of acetic acid or distilled vinegar and a product high in reducing 
sugar and mineral matter and was not a pure cider vinegar.
On October 25, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the, information and the court imposed a fine of $10 and
costs.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 81, 1913.
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