2802.?Adulteration of tomato pulp.   V. S. v. Joan W. Rider.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, ?25 and
costs.   (F. & D. No. 2788.   I. S. No. 9964-c.)
At the November, 1911, term of the District Court of the United States for the Dis??
trict of Indiana the grand jurors of the United States within and for said district, acting?
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, returned an indictment against John W.?
Rider, alias the Scottsburg Canning Co., Scottsburg, Ind., charging shipment by said?
defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on November 26, 1910, from the?
State of Indiana into the State of West Virginia, of a quantity of tomato pulp which?
was adulterated. The product bore no labels, but was shipped in barrels as tomato?
pulp.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Ghemistry of this Department?
showed the following results: Yeasts and spores, 64 per one-sixtieth cmm; bacteria?
140,000,000 per cc; mold filaments in 66 per cent of the microscopic fields.
Adulteration was charged in the indictment for the reason that the product consisted?
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On April 29, ,1913, defendant entered a plea of guilty to the indictment and the court?
imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February S, 1914-