F. & D. No. 144-c.	
Issued January 11,1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1858.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF CREAM.
On June 1, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of?
Columbia, acting upon a report by the Health Officer of said District,?
made by the authorization of the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in?
the Police Court of said District an information against John Ball?
and Garrett Ball, Frederick, Md., alleging that the said defendants?
on May 7, 1912, at the District aforesaid, sold, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, a quantity of cream which was adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that a?
valuable constituent of the product, to wit, butter fat, had been left?
out or abstracted in whole or in part.
On June 1, 1912, the defendants entered a plea of guilty to the?
information and the court imposed a fine of $10.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C.; October 26, 1912.
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