NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1053.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs let.)
ADULTERATION OF TOMATO PARTE.
On May 31. 1911, the United States Attorney for the District of 
New Jersey, acting upon the report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed information in the District Court of the United States for said 
district against Pietro Koncoroni Co., a corporation, alleging ship- 
ment by it, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
November 3, 1910, from the State of New Jersey into the State of 
California, of a quantity of tomato paste that was adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department of a 
sample of this product showed it to contain yeasts and spores at the 
rate of 380 per one-sixtieth mg., bacteria very numerous, estimated 
at one billion per gram, molds in 70 per cent of the microscopic 
fields examined, with many pieces of decayed tissue visible to the 
naked eye. Adulteration was alleged for the reason that said product 
consisted in whole or in part, as shown by the aforesaid examination, 
of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed animal or vegetable substance.
On May 1, 1911, the defendant pleaded non vult, and sentence was 
suspended by the court.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 8, 1911.
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