People v. Queens Farms Dairy, Inc.

Thompson, M.

This is a prosecution brought under section

139 of the Sanitary Code of the City of New York wherein the defendant corporation is charged with having, selling or offering for sale a food deemed adulterated in that it was “ colored * * * or * * * made to appear better than it really is ”. The food in question is a milk product known and labeled as “ egg nag ” which on examination was found to contain a harmless coal tar product or dye known as tartrazine. Tartrazine is yellow in color and nonnutritive. It was part of a rum flavor not manufactured by defendant, which when mixed with…