NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2564.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U.  S. v.  1..  Schepp  & Co.    Plea of  guilty.     Sentence  suspended.
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF SHREDDED COCOANUT.
On August 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against L. Schepp & Co., a corporation, New 
York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on May 4, 1911, from the State of New York 
into the State of Pennsylvania of a quantity of shredded cocoanut 
which was adulterated and misbranded. The product was labeled: 
" 25 lbs. Medium Shredded Cocoanut, Schepp & Co., N. Y."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Sucrose, 44.58 per 
cent; reducing sugar direct, 0.31 per cent. Adulteration of the prod- 
uct was alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, 
to wit, sucrose or cane sugar, had been mixed and packed therewith 
so as to reduce and lower its quality and strength and in that a sub- 
stance, to wit, sucrose or cane sugar, had been substituted in part 
for said product. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the 
package and label of the product bore a statement, to wit, " Shredded 
Cocoanut," which said statement was false and misleading in that it 
conveyed the impression that the product was pure cocoanut, pre- 
pared without the addition of sugar, whereas, in fact, it was a mix- 
ture of shredded cocoanut and cane sugar and was further mis- 
branded in that it was labeled and branded as aforesaid in such a 
manner as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that 
it was a pure shredded cocoanut, whereas, in fact, it was a mixture 
of cocoanut and sucrose, or cane sugar.
On October 14, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court suspended sentence.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. O, September 9, 1913.
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