NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1121.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OF CANE AND MAPLE SUGAR BUTTER.
On November 25, 1910, the United States Attorney for the South- 
ern District of Iowa, acting upon the report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed information in the District Court of the United 
States for said district against the Marshalltown Syrup & Sugar Co., 
alleging shipment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on 
December 4, 1909, from the State of Iowa into the State of Texas, of 
a quantity of sugar butter which was misbranded. The product in 
question was labeled: " Fireside Brand Cane & Maple Sugar Butter 
Packed for Boren-Stewart Co., Dallas, Texas. Fireside Cane and 
Maple Sugar Butter. For cake, fruiting, filling, and icing. It is 
delicious on hot cakes or biscuits. Also spread on bread and but- 
ter—goes further than maple sugar or syrup and much more nutri- 
tious. This package contains one pint and is a mixture of cane and 
maple sugar so blended as to give the most pleasant and lasting 
flavor and a substance used to produce inversion of cane sugar. 
Packed for Boren-Stewart Co., Dallas, Texas."
Analysis of said product by the Bureau of Chemistry of the 
United States Department of Agriculture showed it to contain one- 
tenth of 1 per cent benzoate of soda. Misbranding was alleged for 
the reason that the statement on the above label, to wit, " cane and 
maple sugar butter " without qualification is false and misleading 
as it conveys the impression that the product is composed only of 
the ingredients named, whereas in addition thereto the said product 
contains benzoate of soda of which the purchaser is not informed.
On May 16, 1911, the defendant pleaded guilty, and on May 22,
1911, the court imposed a fine of $20.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 18,1911.
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