5017.  Adulteration  of  milk.     U.   S.   *    *    *   v.  William.  ILomls  Fuller.    Plea
of  nolo  contendere.    Fine, $45  and   costs.     (F.  &  D.   No.  6365.    I.   S.?
Nos. 1046-h, 1047-h, 1048-h, 1049-h, 1050-h, 1051-h, 1052-h, 1053-h.)
On June 26, 1915, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Ohio, 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?
Louis Fuher, Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 9, 1918, from the State of Ohio?
into the State of Pennsylvania, of quanities of milk which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed the following results:
The results show in every case the presence of a filthy, decom??
posed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance: in sample No. 1?
the presence of added water; and samples No. 2 and 3 that a por??
tion of the fat has been removed.
Adulteration of 1 can of the milk was alleged in the information for the?
reason that a substance?to wit, water?had been mixed and packed with the?
article so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength,?
and had been substituted in part for pure milk, which the article purported?
to be, and for the further reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decom??
posed, and putrid animal or vegetable substance. Adulteration of 2 cans?
of the milk was alleged for the reason that a valuable constituent of the?
article?to wit, fat?had been in part abstracted therefrom; and for the fur??
ther reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal?
or vegetable substance. Adulteration of 5 cans of the milk was alleged?
for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid?
animal or vegetable substance.
On January 31, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $45 and costs.
GAEL VEOOMAK, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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