10127.?Adnltex'ation of flavor of vanilla, flavor of vanilla and vanillin, and
flavor   of  lemon.     U.   S.     *     *     *     v.   Clay  L.   Schroeder   (National?
Food   Mfg.   Co.).     Plea  of   guilty.     Fine,  $250   and   costs.     (F.   &  D.
No. 14348.    I. S. Nos. 8378-r, 8379-r, 8745-r, 8746-r, 8747-r, 8748-r, 8751-r,?
8752r-r, 9634-r.)
On April 29, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
Clay L. Schroeder, trading as the National Food Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.,?
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
from the State of Missouri,' on or about July 17 and 28, 1919, respectively, into?
the States of Indiana and Kansas, of quantities of flavor of vanilla; on or?
about July 23, 1919, into the State of Ohio, of quantities of flavor of vanilla?
and vanillin; and on or about July 17 and 28, 1919, respectively, into the States?
of Kansas and Indiana, of quantities of flavor of lemon, all of which were?
adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the flavor of vanilla and vanillin by the Bureau of?
Chemistry of this department showed that it contained coumarin and was short?
measure. Analyses of samples of the flavor of vanilla by said bureau showed?
that it was a dilute vanilla extract. Analyses of samples of the flavor of?
lemon by said bureau showed that a portion thereof was a dilute terpeneless?
lemon flavor and that the remainder thereof was a sugar sirup containing a?
vegetable gum and that it was materially deficient in lemon oil.
Adulteration of the flavor of vanilla was alleged in the information for the?
reason that a substance, to wit, a dilute extract of vanilla, had been substi??
tuted in whole or in part for pure flavor of vanilla, which the article purported?
to be. Adulteration of the flavor of vanilla and vanillin was alleged for the?
reason that a substance, to wit, a solution of vanillin and coumarin, which?
contained little, if any, vanilla extract, had been substituted in whole or in part?
for pure flavor of vanilla and vanillin, which the article purported to be.?
Adulteration of the flavor of lemon was alleged for the reason that a mixture,
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to wit, a sugar sirup which contained a vegetable gum, and which was mate??
rially deficient in lemon oil, or a substance, to wit, dilute alcohol slightly?
flavored with citral, and which contained no lemon oil, as the case might be,?
had been mixed and packed with the said article so as to lower and reduce and?
injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted in part for?
pure flavor of lemon, which the said article purported to be.
On November 1, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $250 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary- of Agriculture.