15086. Adulteration and Misbranding of Grape Zest.    XJ. S. v. 4 Dozen Bot-
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S ties and 25 Dozen Bottles of Grape Zest.     Default decree entered.
'**' Product  adjudged  adulterated   and  misbranded  and   ordered   de-
V- stroyed.     (F. & D. No. 21612.    I. S. No. 10989-x.    S. No. W-2087.)
On or about January 29, 1927, the United States attorney for the Southern 
||district of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
gin the District Court of the United  States for said district a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 4 dozen large bottles and 25 dozen small bottles of 
Jrape Zest, remaining in the original unbroken packages- at Los Angeles, Calif., 
Alleging that the article had been shipped by the Fairbanks Products Co., Salt 
fdake City, Utah, in part July 20, 1926, and in part November 20, 1926, and 
^transported from the State of Utah into the State of California, and charging 
idulteration and misbranding in violation of the food  and drugs act.    The 
Article was labeled in part: " Fairbanks Compound Grape-Zest for Beverage and 
" Pood Fairbanks Products Company Salt Lake City Utah."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
Instance, to wit, an imitation grape beverage powder, had been substituted wholly 
p^or in part for the said article, and in that it was colored in a manner whereby 
inferiority was concealed.
? ^ Misbranding was alleged for the reasons that the statement" Compound Grape- 
|? Zest," borne on the label, was false and misleading and deceived and misled the 
\purchaser and that it was an imitation of and offered tor sale under the name 
i; .of another article.
g ;, On March 10, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree 
.was entered, finding the product adulterated and misbranded, and ordering that 
y it be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.