[PDF] Notices Of Judgment Under The Food And Drugs Act eBook

Author : United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780366392896

GET BOOK

Excerpt from Notices of Judgment Under the Food and Drug Act: No. 451-501 On or about February 1, 1910, the Pendleton Grain Company, St. Louis, Mo., shipped from the State of Missouri to the State of Arkan sas, one carload of white oats. Analysis of sample of this product made in the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture showed it to be adulterated within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906. AS it appeared from the find ings of the analyst and report made that the shipment was liable to seizure under Section 10 of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture re ported the facts to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. In due course a libel was filed against the said carload of white oats, charging adulteration of the product within the mean ing of the act because it consisted of 9. 2 per cent. Barley, 6. 8 per cent. Wheat, per cent. Debris, weed seed, chaff, etc. And the balance White oats, and was misbranded m that the carload was invoiced, labeled and branded as No.3 White Oats, which statements were false, misleading and deceptive because they Were not white cats but a mixture of white oats, barley, weed seeds, debris, wheat, chaff, etc. Thereupon H. K. Cochran, Little Rock, Ark, made an appearance as claimant, and the case coming on for a hearing, the court rendered its decree of condemnation and forfeiture and ordered that the said product be delivered to claimant upon being branded White Oats, mixed with weed seed, wheat, barley, chaff, etc.' and upon a bond being filed conditioned that the product be not sold in violation of the law Of any state, territory or insular possession of the United. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.