NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO.  2326.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF CONDENSED MILK.
On November 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the South- 
ern District of Illinois, 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 White Hall Condensed Milk Co., 
a corporation, White Hall, Ill., alleging shipment by said company, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on July 17, 1912, from the 
State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of so-called 
plain condensed milk which was adulterated and misbranded. The 
product was labeled: "From White Hall Condensed Milk Co., Both 
Phones, White Hall, Ill., to the Banner Creamery, St. Louis,.Mo. 
Plain Cond. Milk 5 Cans 50 Gals."
Analysis of samples of the product, made by the Bureau of Chemis- 
try of this Department, showed the following results: (Sample No. 1) 
Solids, 36.10 per cent; fat by Rose-Gottlieb, 6.75 per cent; protein 
(Nx6.38), 9.57 per cent; lactose, 16.43 per cent; ratio protein to fat, 
1:0.71; per cent fat in total solids, 18.71; ash, 2.54 per cent; unde- 
termined, 0.81 per cent. (Sample No. 2) Solids, 36.54 per cent; fat 
by Rose-Gottlieb, 6.39 per cent; protein (No.»38), 10.27 per cent; 
lactose, 17.26 per cent; ratio protein to fat, 1:0.62; per cent fat in 
total solids, 17,50; ash, 2.49 per cent; undetermined, 0.13 per cent. 
(Sample No. 3) Solids, 36.67 per cent; fat by Rose-Gottlieb, 6.58 per 
cent; protein (Nx6.38), 10.72 per cent; lactose, 17.43 per cent; 
ratio protein to fat, 1:0.62; per cent fat in total solids, 17.92; ash, 
2.47 per cent; overrun, 0.53 per cent. (Sample No. 4) Solids, 35.50 
per cent; fat by Rose-Gottlieb, 6.58 per cent; protein (Nx6.38), 
10.84 per cent; lactose, 17.19 per cent; ratio protein to fat, 1:0.61; 
per cent fat in total solids, 18.54;  ash, 2.49 per cent;  overrun, 1.60
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per cent, (Sample No. 5) Solids, 36,57 per cent; fat by Rose- 
Gottlieb, 6.63 per cent; protein (Nx6.38), 9.37 per cent; lactose, 
16.98 per cent; ratio protein to fat, 1:0.71; per cent fat in total 
solids, 18.65; ash, 2.49 per cent; undetermined, 1.10 per cent. Adul- 
teration of the product was alleged in the information for the reason 
that butter fat, a valuable constituent of plain condensed milk, had 
been wholly or in part abstracted therefrom, so that the product fell 
below the standard for condensed unsweetened milk, which had 
theretofore been promulgated by Food Inspection Decision No. 131 
of the Department of Agriculture of the United States. Misbranding 
was alleged for the reason that the product bore a label, device, and 
design, as above set forth, and misbranded in that said label, bearing 
thereon the words " Plain Cond. Milk", was false and misleading, 
because it conveyed the impression that the product was an un- 
sweetened condensed milk, containing a normal amount of butter fat 
as set forth in Food Inspection Decision No. 131 of the Department 
of Agriculture, and that the same was made from whole milk, whereas 
in fact it contained less than the normal amount of butter fat; that is, 
less than 7.8 per cent of butter fat, and was made partly from skim 
milk.
On November 25, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
nolo contendere to the information and the court imposed a fine of 
$25 and costs,
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 28, 1913.
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