10158. Adulteration of wine vinegar.   U. S. v. 50 Gases of Wine Vinegar (and 2
other seizure actions against wine vinegar). Default decrees of con- 
demnation and destruction. (P. D. C. Nos. 17573, 17574, 17888. Sample 
Nos. 4620-H, 7714-H, 7915-H, 7916-H.)
LIBELS FILED : September 18 and on or about September 19 and October 9, 1945, 
Districts of New Jersey and Connecticut and Middle District of Pennsylvania.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about July 20, 21, and 27, by the Randall Wine Vine- 
gar Co., from New York, N. Y.
PRODUCT: 11 cases, each containing 24 1-pint bottles, and 34 cases, each con- 
taining 12 1-quart bottles, of wine vinegar at Newark, N. J.; and 50 cases, 
each containing 6 ^-gallon jugs, and 8 cases, each containing 12 1-quart 
bottles, of wine vinegar at New Haven, Conn., and Hazleton, Pa., respectively.
LABEL IN PART : "Eldeen Brand Packed by Eldeen Spice Co. New York Pure 
Wine Vinegar."
NATURE OF CHARGE : Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (2), a mixture of wine vinegar 
and distilled vinegar or acetic acid had been substituted in whole or in part 
for pure wine vinegar, which the article was represented to be; and, Section 
402 (b) (4), distilled vinegar or acetic acid had been added to the article or 
mixed and packed with it so as to reduce its quality or strength.
Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the label statements, "Pure Wine Vinegar 
* * * We guarantee this product to be made 'from pure wine," were false 
and misleading as applied to a mixture of wine vinegar and distilled vinegar 
or acetic acid. 
DISPOSITION : November 14 and December 17 and 18, 1945. No claimant having 
appeared for any of the 3 lots, judgments of condemnation were entered and 
the product was ordered destroyed.
The containers of the New Haven lot were ordered salvaged, by amended 
decree dated November 16, 1945.
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