26025. Adulteration   and misbranding of  strawberry  and  pineapple  preserves.
U. S. v. 381 Jars of Alleged Strawberry Preserves and 117 Jars of 
Alleged Pineapple Preserves. Default decree of condemnation and 
destruction.     (F. & D. no. 37378.    Sample nos. 62620-B, 62621-B.)
This case involved a shipment of alleged preserves that were deficient in 
fruit and that contained an excess of sugar and added acid and pectin.
On or about March 18, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of 
Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 49S jars of alleged 
preserves at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the articles had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about August 1, 1935, by National Kream Co., Inc., from 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the
Food and Drugs Act as amended. The articles were labeled in part: "King 
Arthur Pure Preserves Strawberry [or "Pineapple"] * * * Jam. E. Arthur 
& Son Distributors, Baltimore, Md."
The articles were alleged to be adulterated in that a mixture of sugar, acid, 
and pectin had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce or lower 
their quality; in that a mixture of fruit, sugar, acid, and pectin that contained 
less fruit and more sugar than preserves had been substituted for preserves, 
which the articles purported to be; and in that the articles had been mixed in 
a manner whereby inferiority had been concealed.
The articles were alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on the label, 
"Pure Preserves Strawberry" and "Pure Preserves Pineapple", were false and 
misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser when applied to 
products that resembled preserves but which contained less fruit than preserves, 
the deficiency in fruit having been concealed by the addition of acid, pectin, and 
excess sugar ;? and in that the articles were imitations of and offered for sale 
under the distinctive names of other articles.
On May 7, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and it was ordered that the products be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.