NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2368.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF BUTTER,
On December 6, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Columbia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the Police Court of said District an information against 
Hugh W. Fred, Wilson's Cafe, Washington, D. C., alleging the sale 
by said defendant, at the District aforesaid, on April 26, 1912, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, of a quantity of so-called 
butter which was adulterated and misbranded. The product bore 
no label, but was sold and represented as butter.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Melting test, very 
cloudy; foam test, very little foam; refruition at 40° C, 48.0; 
Keichert Meissl number, 5.6. Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that another substance, 
namely, oleomargarine, had been substituted in whole or in part for 
the genuine article of food, namely, butter. Misbranding was alleged 
for the reason that the product was an imitation of and was offered 
for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article of 
food, namely, butter.
On December 6, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to 
the information and the court imposed a fine of $20.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3,1913.
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