The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-23
FIRMS FINED FOR
USE OF DRUGS
IN. CANDY
Government Gets after Them
for Putting Arsenic and Lead
in CONNECTIONS and Jelly.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 81
The accidental presence of arsenic
in jelly. candy and chocolate and OF
lead in cream tartar, has caused one
corporation to be fined 500 and
three corporations to fined $50 each
for the shipment of such adulterated
products in Interstate commerce.
In every case the arsenic and lead ap-
pear to have found their way into
the products through ignorance or
.carelessness on the part of the manu-
facturer. In order to protect him
self, he should have procured ma
terials guaranteed by his vendor un-
der the food and drugs act. thus
shifting the responsibility from him
self, or else made certain by a per-
sonal investigation that they con-
tanned no injurious ingredients.
According to a recent announce
ment of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, the Williams
Brothers Company, of Detroit, Mich,
has been fined 500 for sending
four brands of adulterated jelly into
Missouri. One brand contained seven
parts of arsenic per million. Two
of the brands contained eight parts,
and the fourth, twenty parts per
million, which might render the jelly
injurious to health.
The Catawba Candy Company, OF
Sandusky, o., was also fined $50
and costs for sending into North Car
DINA and Illinois quantities of "Ital-
ian Cream" and into Oklahoma a
quantity of Iced Squares" all of
which contained arsenic in either
the candy or coating. or both. Leo
Benjamin, of New York City, ac-
cording to the announcement, was
fined $50 for shipping into Pennsyl-
vania Chocolate Cremolin" which
contained arsenic. 1t also contained
another mineral substance, crude
oxid of iron, which acted both as
color and a cocoa substitute. The
label stated that: "Tbis cremolin
contains powdered cocoa, and lit
tie harmless coloring.'
Cream Tartar Contains Lead.
The Pan Chemical Company, of
New York City, was fined $50 for
shipping a quantity of adulterated
cream tartar into the state of Wash
lngton. 1t contained lead, a pois-
onous ingredient, in the amount OF
sixty-two parts per million, which
might render it injurious to health.
The Sen-Sen Chicolet Company, a
corporation organized under the
laws of Maine, with a factory at Sa-
lem, o., was fined SIS and costs fol
shipping misbranded chewing gum
from Ohio to Illinois. The gum bore
label containing the words Jumbo
Pepsin Gum" Analysis showed tina
the gum contained no pepsin.
The shipment of adulterated and
misbranded mincemeat in interstate
commerce has brought three fines of
win Company, of Urbana, o. The
''mincemeat" contained nothing more
than trace of meat, there being
OIL per cent of the meat in two ship
ments, and OF per cent in tho third.
This was not considered sufficient to
comply with the federal law. The
labels on the shipments giving the
composite articles of the ''mince-
meat mentioned meat first.
\ Short weight of peanut butter
brought fine Of S25 and costs to
Julius Koehler (The Royal Peanut
Butter Company, of Cleveland, o.
because the article was shipped in
interstate commerce. Ten packages
showed an acreage shortage of over
thirteen per cent in weight. Another
Ohio Company. OF Toledo. the Ohio
Spice and Extract Company, was
fined S25 and costs for shipping adul-
iterated and misbranded mace into
Missouri.
Lesser fines were imposed as fol-
lows: d
Henry NJ. Boggs. fullerton, KY,
milk adulteration. SIS and costs.
Alexander A. Walter and Alfred r.
Walter, of Albany, N. Y. potato
chips. misbranding, fined $3.50
each.
The John Boyle Company, Balti.
j more, Nd, canned peas, misbrand-