NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2116.
(G.when pursuant to section 4 of the Pood and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On July 9, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern Dis* 
trict 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 William Nieman, of Mount Olive, Ill., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on July 10, 1911, from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri 
of a quantity of milk which was adulterated. The product bore no 
label.
Bacteriological examination of samples of the product by the Bu- 
reau of Chemistry of this Department showed the following results' 
(Sample No. 1) 2,300,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 
37° C.; 1,000,000 gas-producing organisms. (Sample No. 2) 
28,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.I 
1,000,000 B. coli group; 1,000,000 streptococci. Adulteration of the 
product was alleged in the information for the reason that it was 
composed in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On January 18, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of nolo conten- 
dere to the information and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs,
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture*
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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