17128. Adulteration and Misbranding of vanilla extract.    TJ. S. v. 3% Car 
tons of Vanilla Extract.    Default decree of condemnation, forfei- 
ture, and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 24189.    I. S. No. 024602.    S. No. 2427.)
On October 30, 1929, 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 a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 3% cartons of vanilla extract, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Atlanta Supply Co., Atlanta, Ga., on or about August 30, 1929, and 
transported from the State of Georgia into the State of Missouri, and charging j 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part: " Flavoring Extract Vanilla * * * Manufac- 
tured by the Atlanta Supply Co., Atlanta, Ga."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that an arti- 
ficially-colored product deficient in vanilla had been substituted in part for the 
said article, and in that it was colored in a manner whereby inferiority was 
concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement on the bottle 
label, " Flavoring Extract Vanilla," was false and misleading and deceived 
and misled the purchaser, and for the further reason that the article was an 
imitation of and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another 
article.
On March 11, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United J3tates marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.