NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2545.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
V. S. v. 32 Barrels of Vinegar.    Decree  of condemnation  by consent.
Goods released on bond.
ADULTERATION AND  MISBRANDING OF YINEGfAR.
On January 23, 1913, 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 dis- 
trict a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 32 barrels of vinegar, 
remaining unsold and in the original unbroken packages and in the 
possession of George M. Eyrie & Co., Alton, Ill., alleging that the 
product had been shipped in interstate commerce by A. Braun Manu- 
facturing Co., St. Louis, Mo., on or about November 20, 1912, and 
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, 
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " Manufactured for Geo. 
M. Eyrie & Co., Alton, Ill.   50—Sugar Vinegar—St. Louis, Mo."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted wholly or in part of distilled vinegar, which had 
been artificially colored and substituted for and packed in the barrels 
in imitation of sugar vinegar, so that distilled vinegar and artificial 
coloring matter had been substituted wholly or in part for sugar 
vinegar, and so that the product was mixed and colored in a manner 
whereby inferiority was concealed. Misbranding was alleged for 
the reason that the product was branded and labeled as set forth 
above, which said brand and label bore a statement, design, and 
device regarding the product and the ingredients and substances 
contained therein which was false and misleading in that said label
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and brand purported to declare and in substance and fact did declare 
that each of the barrels contained sugar vinegar, when, in truth and 
in fact, said product consisted in whole or in part of distilled vinegar, 
artificially colored in imitation of sugar vinegar, and further, in that 
said product was an imitation of and offered for sale under the dis- 
tinctive name of sugar vinegar, when, in truth and in fact, it was not 
sugar vinegar, but an imitation thereof.
On March 15, 1913, the said George M. Eyrie & Co., claimant, 
having admitted all the material allegations in the libel and con- 
sented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be 
redelivered to said claimants, upon the payment of all the costs of the 
proceeding and the execution of bond in the sum of $500, in con- 
formity with section 10 of the Act.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 28,1913.
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