NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2126.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  OF APPLE CHOPS.
On July 27, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district 
an information against the Arthur J. Thompson Co., a corporation, 
Chicago, Ill., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on September 15, 1910, from the State of Illi- 
nois into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of apple chops which were 
adulterated. The product was labeled: "From A. J. Thompson Co., 
Chicago, Ill. * * * Notify Albert A. Deiser & Co., Des Moines, 
Iowa."
An analysis of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Sample No. 1 con- 
sisted of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance infested with 
worms and insects, rendering it unfit for human food. Sample No. 2 
extremely bad; made of culls or low-grade apples (many skins and 
cores), and covered with dirt and excreta; some beetles and worms 
still working. Sample No. 3 filthy, moldy, and contains excreta. 
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the 
reason that it consisted in part or in whole of a filthy, decomposed, 
and putrid vegetable substance. Adulteration was alleged for the 
further reason that the product consisted in part of a filthy animal 
substance infested with bugs and worms.
On October 12, 1912, the defendant company entered a plea of
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $50, with
costs.
WILLIS L. MOORE,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 17, 1912.
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