5911.  Adtnlteuation. and mist:within.g o£ apple juice.    U. S.   *    *    *   v. Broc- 
ton Finiit Px-oduets   Co.* a  corporation.    Plea  ol  nolo  contendere.
Fine, $25,     (F. &. D. No. T8»3.    I. S. No. 12120-1.)
On February 16, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of New YbEkr acting up Di a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States: for said district an iisf»rmatian against the 
Erector Fruit Products Go.r a e&Fp»fationr Erocton, N, Y., alleging shipment 
by said eompaay, 1st violation of the Food and Drags- Act, en or about Decem- 
ber 21 r 1915, from the State of New York into the State of Missouri, of a 
quantity of an article labeled in part, "Apple Juice," which was adulterated 
and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department shewed the following results:
Bottles 
No. 1.    No. 2.    No. 3.    No. 4.
Nonsugar solid's (grams per 10Oec)__    1.31     1.37     1.23     1.30
Reducing sugar direct as invert (grams 
per 100 cc) 
2.95     3.24     3.49     3.5S
Reducing sugar after inversion as In- 
vert (grams per 100 cc) 
9.12     3.09      9 06     9.10
Sucrose (by copper) (grams per 100 cc)    5. 86     5. 56     5. 29     5. 24
Total sugars (grams per 100 cc)     8. 81      S. 80     8 78     8. 82
Ash in nonsugar solids (per cent) 10. 0       9. 5     10 0     10. 7
The results of analysis show that the product is a fermented
apple juice which has been diluted and sweetened with sugar.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, a fermented apple juice which had been diluted and sweet- 
ened, had been substituted in whole or in part for pure apple juice, which the 
article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement borne on the label 
attached to the bottle containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, to wit, "Apple Juice," was false and mislead- 
ing in that it represented that said article was pure apple juice, and for the 
further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead 
the purchaser into the belief that it was pure apple juice, whereas, in truth and 
in fact, it was not, but was a product composed in whole or in part of fermented 
apple juice which had been diluted and sweetened.
On November 27, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of nolo con- 
tendere to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.