7884. Adulteration and misl?ra,ndiing- of cocoa powder. V. S. * * * v. 
Leon Henry. Flea of g-uilty. Fine, f25. (P. & D. No 9727. I. S. No. 
3935-p.)
On April 29, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against Leon Henry, 
Hobokcn, N. J., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about April 15, 1918, from the State of New Jersey into 
the State of New York, of a quantity of an unlabeled article which was invoiced 
as cocoa powder and which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the product contained an excessive amount of cocoa 
shells.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to v/it, cocoa shells, had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted for cocoa powder, which the article purported to be; for the 
further reason that it was an article inferior to powdered cocoa, to wit, a 
product composed in part of cocoa shells, prepared in imitation of powdered
cocoa, and said cocoa shells had been mixed with the article in a manner 
whereby its inferiority to said powdered cocoa was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was a mixture com- 
posed in part of cocoa shells prepared in imitation of powdered cocoa, and 
was offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article, 
to wit, powdered cocoa.
On May 10, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Aciing Secretary of Agriculture.