Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-12
GOVfRNM'T IS PROSECUTING
FLAVORING EXTRACT MAKERS
For MisbrandiRg Their Prod
uCtS

| Washington, D. c., August 1.-THE
Department of Agriculture has just
published FIVE notices of judgment
against shippers of favoring extracts,
four of which also comprise judS-
ments for misbranding.
Herman Fuchs, of New York City
pleaded guilty in two of these cases,
of shipping adulterated and misbrand
ed strawberry flavor and vanilla ex-
tract. 1t was found that both pro-
ducts we're imitation extracts.
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemis
try showed the so-called strawberry
favor" to be a substance composed
chiefly of water, alcohol, sugar and
artificial esters, colored with an an
aline dye to initiate the coloring Of
rawberries. It was charged that the
coloring of the product by this dye
aided in concealing its inferiority.
Misbranding was alleged for the reas-
on that the label was false and mis-
leading, in that it indicated a true
strawberry flavor whereas it was
not true strawberry fiavoring but an
imitation.
The adutleration alleged against
vanilla extract was that a preparation
consisting of alcohol, water and arti-
fetal vanillin had been mixed with
the product so as to reduce and injur-
iously affect it's strength and quality.
The misbranding was alleged because
the label indicated that the produce
was an extract of the vanilla mean
whereas analysis showed it to consist
of the ingredients above stated. The
label read Vanilla Extract-Guaranty
Legend, Serial No. 6492, H. Fuchs, I'M
porter, Manufacturer and Dealer il
Fine Essential Oils and Flavoring Ex-
tracts, 173 West Broadway, New
York"
The court suspended sentence Ii.
both cases. Shipment of adulteratei
and misbranded vanilla extract was
also the charge against the Hudson
Manufacturing Company, corpora
ton of Chicago, Illinois, judgment Of
which, in favor of the Government
has just been published. This cor
poration, it was alleged in violatio I
of the Food and Drug Act, shipped 4
quality of so-called vanilla extract
from the State of Illinois into the state
of Texas.
The particulars of the Governments
adulteration charge were that an iml-
tation had been substituted in part for
the product named on the label AMI
that imitation was found to contain
vanillin, coumarin and artificial color
IL oh,
that the artificial coloring served to
conceal the inferiority of the extract
by making it resemble the genuine.
Nisbanding was alleged for the reas-
On that it was an imitation of an
other article of food and that it was
Offered for sale under the distinctive
name of that other article, namely,
"pure vanilla extract and for the
reason that label represented to the
purchaser that the product as TIC
genuine vanilla extract conforming to
the commercial standard whereas in
fact it contained only grams of the
vanilla bean, and should have con-
tanned not less than 10 grams to con-
form to the standard. The product
was labeled Mexican Vanilla Tonka
Extract"
On February 20, 1913, at the con-
clusion of the introduction of evidence
by the Government, the defendant
withdrew his former plea of not gull
ty, and thereupon the court imposed J
fine of 100 and costs.
Another case won by the Goverp-
ment against this Chicago corporation
concerned a product labeled "Prims
Vanilla Extract, made from the ex-
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