4312.  Adulteration  of  confectionery.    TJ. ? S.  v.   Hess  Bros.,  a   corporation.?
Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $5.     (F, & D. No. 2800.    I. S. No. 18408-c.)
On February 9, 1912, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
Hess Bros,, a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on March 2, 1911, from the State?
of New York into the District of Columbia, of a quantity of confectionery which?
was adulterated. The article was labeled: "Penny Eggs (Assorted) 100.?
Guaranteed by Hess Bros. Inc., under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30,?
1906.    Serial No. 1709."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that said article contained talc.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it contained talc.
On January 4, 1916, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
CARL VBOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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