A charge of adulteral Feuille Vinicole de la Gironde, December 23, 1909.

tion has been made in the French courts against wine which contained more than 350 milligrams per liter.1 This was an action which took place in the court of Paris on goods cited by the Central Laboratory for the Repression of Frauds. The defense urged, first, that the expert evidence was so contradictory in regard to the effects of an excess quantity as to be of no value; second, that the defendant was ignorant of the exact quantities of sulphurous acid contained in the wines under consideration; third, that the quantities exceeded by very little the amounts which were permitted by the regulation; fourth, that the wines were of the vintage of 1905, and having been made previous to the enactment of the law, were not subject thereto.

In spite of this ingenious defense, the court under the presidency of Judge Lemercier, condemned the defendant to a fine of 50 francs.