5369,  Adnltei'atfom and misbranding of vinegar.     II. S.   *    *   *    v. Edward 
P. Sheehan (Sheehan Bros.).    Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, $50.
(F. & D. No. 7881.    I. S. No. 4358-1.)
On February 7, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Edward 
P. Sheehan, trading as Sheehan Bros., Littleton, Mass., alleging shipment by 
said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about October 26, 
1915, from the State of Massachusetts into the State of Maine, of a quantity 
of an article labeled in part, " Pure Cider Vinegar * * * made from fresh 
apple juice Sheehan Bros., Littleton, Mass.," which was adulterated and mis- 
branded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results:
Alcohol (gram per 100 c c) 
0.12
Glycerol (gram per 100 c c) 
0.16
Solids (grams per 100 c c) 
1.59
Nonsugar solids (grams per 100 c c) 
1. 04
Reducing sugar after evaporation (gram per 100 c c)    0. 55
Ash (gram per 100 c c) 
0.28
Ash in nonsugar solids (per cent) 
26,9
Acidity as acetic (grams per 100 c c) 
4.08
Above analysis indicates added water and mineral matter in 
the vinegar.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
substances, to wit, water and mineral matter, had been mixed and packed with 
the article so as to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, and had been substituted in part for a pure cider vinegar, which the 
article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement borne on the 
barrel, to wit, " Pure Cider Vinegar," regarding the article and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it repre- 
sented that the article was pure cider vinegar; and for the further reason that 
it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the 
belief that it was pure eider vinegar, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not, 
but was a product composed in part of water and added mineral matter.
On March 5, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.