5813. Adulteration and misbranding of gelatin. U. S. » * * v. 2 Barrels 
of * * * Gelatin. Consent decree of condemnation and forfei- 
ture. Product ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 8284. I. S. 
No. 8812-m.    S. No. E-853.)
On July 3, 1917, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Penn- 
sylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 2 barrels of gelatin, consigned by W. K. Jahn Co., Chicago, 
111., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about May 2, 1917, and trans- 
ported from the State of Illinois into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
glue had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part 
for gelatin, and for the further reason that it contained added poisonous and 
deleterious ingredients, to wit, copper and zinc, which might render the same 
injurious to. health.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that its packages contained labels which bore the statement, " Gelatine," 
regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein, 
which was false and misleading in that it indicated to purchasers that the 
packages contained gelatin, when, in fact, they did not; and for the further 
reason that the product, consisting largely of glue, was an imitation of, and 
offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article, to wit, gelatin.
On July 28, 1917, the said W. K. Jahn Co., claimant, having consented to a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ord- 
ered by the court that the product should be released to said claimant upon the 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $800, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the 
article should be relabeled under the supervision of this department and should 
not be used for food purposes or in the manufacture of articles of food.
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.