F. & D. No. 4108-b.
I. S. No. 13115-d.	
Issued March 8, 1913.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2026.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTEKATION OF MILK.
On July 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of?
Connecticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture,?
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an?
information against Samuel Gitlin, Colchester, Conn., alleging ship??
ment by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about?
September 7, 1911, from the State of Connecticut into the State of?
Ehode Island of a quantity of milk which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this Department showed the following results: Total solids, 10.93?
per cent; fat, 3.00 per cent; solids not fat, 7.93 per cent. Adultera??
tion of the product was alleged in the information for the reason?
that water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and?
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and that water?
had been substituted wholly or in part for the article.
On July 23, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contenderei?
and the court imposed a fine of $40.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 25, 1912.
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