7047. Adulteration and misbranding- of vinegar. TJ. S. * * * v. Ernest B. 
Van Kenren and William S. Van Keuren (Van Keuren Co.). Pleas 
of guilty.     Fine, $25.     (P. & D. No. 9584.    I. S. No. 19861-p.)
On August 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western 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 
Ernest B. Van Keuren and William S. Van Keuren, copartners, trading as the 
Van Keuren Co., Savona, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about December 3 or 5, 1917, from the 
State of New York into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of an article, labeled 
in part " Pure Cider Vinegar," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results, expressed as grams per 100 cc, unless 
otherwise stated:
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
0.38
Glycerin 
,      , 10
Total solids 
1. 80
Beducing sugars as invert after inversion after evaporation-      . 58
Nonsugar solids 
1. 22
Total ash 
. 23
Total acid as acetic 
3. 59
Color (brewer's scale, 1 inch cell) 
11.00
The analysis shows the article to contain distilled vinegar or 
dilute acetic acid and to be deficient in acidity.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that certain substances, to wit, water, and either distilled vinegar or dilute 
acetic acid, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower and reduce 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in 
part for pure cider vinegar reduced to legal standard 40 grain, which the article 
purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement, 
to wit, " Pure Cider Vinegar * * * Reduced to Legal Standard 40 grain," 
borne on the barrels containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it repre- 
sented that the article was pure cider vinegar reduced to legal standard 40 
grain, 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 cider vine- 
gar reduced to legal standard 40 grain, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was 
not pure cider vinegar reduced to legal standard 40 grain, but was a mixture 
composed in part of water, and either distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid.
On September 8, 1919, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.