7006. Adulteration and misbranding- of condensed milk. U. S. * * * "v. 
1,000 Cases of * * * Alleged Sweetened Condensed Milk. Con- 
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered re- 
leased on bond.     (F. & D. No. 9543.     I. S. No. 14337-r.     S. No   B-1186.)
On December 20, 1918, 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 a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1,000 cases, each containing 48 cans of alleged sweetened con- 
densed milk, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, 
N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about May 6, 1918, by 
the Litchfield Creamery Co., Litchfield, Ill., and transported from the State of 
Illinois into the State of New York, and charging adulteration and misbrand- 
ing in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, 
"Litchfield Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, manufactured by Litchfield 
Creamery Co., Litchfield, Ill., U. S. A."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement 
borne on the label, to wit, " Condensed Milk," was false and misleading and 
deceived and misled the purchaser into the belief that the product was normal 
condensed milk, when, in truth and in fact, it was not, but was, to wit, a thick- 
ened and coagulated condensed milk.
On February 11, 1919, the said Litchfield Creamery Co., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the truth of the allegations of the libel and consented to a decree, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be delivered to said claimant upon the payment 
of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,500, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product
should be sorted under the supervision of a representative of this department, 
and that the portion found unfit for food should be destroyed or denatured and 
the good portion released to said claimant.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.