7868. Adulteration and misbranding1 of vinegar. U. S. * * * v. Ozark 
Cider & ViKiegax* Co., a Corporation (O. TJ. Gregory Co.). Plea of 
sailty. Fine, $75 and costs. (F. & D. No. 9234. I. S. Nos. 8116-p, 
895 2-p.)
on November 22, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Ozark Cider & Vinegar Co., a corporation, Siloam Springs, Ark., alleging
shipment by said company, under the name of O. L. Gregory Co., in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about February 18, 1918, and 
July 18, 1917, from the State of Arkansas into the State of Oklahoma, of 
quantities of vinegar which was adulterated and misbranded. The vinegar 
shipped in February was labeled, " Ozark Cider & Vinegar Co. Sugar Vinegar. 
Siloam Springs, Ark." The vinegar shipped in July was labeled, in part, 
"Mountain Brand Apple Cider Vinegar contents approx. one pint nine ounces 
Manufactured by The Ozark Cider & Vinegar Co., Siloam Springs, Ark."
Analysis of a sample of the so-callpd sugar vinegar by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of this department showed that it consisted largely of distilled 
vinegar or dilute acetic acid. Analysis of a sample of the Mountain Brand 
apple cider vinegar, so called, showed that it was either distilled vinegar or 
dilute acetic acid artificially colored.
Adulteration of both vinegars was alleged in tlie information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, either distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid, had been 
mixed and packed therewith so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect 
its quality, and had been substituted in part for sugar vinegar or apple cider 
vinegar, as the case miglit be, which the article purported to be. Adulteration 
of the so-called apple cider vinegar was alleged for, the further reason that it 
was an article inferior to apple cider vinegar, to wit, an article composed in 
part of either distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid, and was artificially colored 
so as to simulate the appearance of apple cider vinegar and in a manner 
whereby its inferiority to apple cider vinegar was concealed.
Misbranding of botli vinegars was alleged for the reason that the statement, 
to wit, " Sugar Vinegar'" or "Apple Cider Vinegar," borne on the labels atLached 
to the barrels or bottles containing tlie article, regarding it and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it repre- 
sented that said article was sugar vinegar or apple cider vinegar, as the case 
might be, 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 sugar vinegar or 
apple cider vinegar, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not, but was a 
product composed in part of either distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid, and 
either distilled vinegar or dilute acetic acid artificially colored, as the case 
might be. Misbranding of the so-called Mountain Brand apple cider vinegar 
was alleged for the further reason that it was food in package form, nnd the 
quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the 
outside of the package.
On December 23, 1918, a plea of guilty to tlie information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant corporation, and the court imposed a fine of $75 and 
costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of AgrlcuUure.