4674.  Adulteration of raisins.    U. S. v. 'Wood & Selick Co., a corporation.    Plea?
ot guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. No. 7080.    I. S. No. 1495-h.)
On February 18, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern. Dis??
trict 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 the Wood & Selick Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging ship??
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and and Drugs Act, on April 17,?
1914, from the State of New York into the State of Maryland, of a quantity?
of raisins which were adulterated. The article was labeled: " Iiecleaned?
California Thompson's Seedless Raisins. Packed by Bonner Packing Co.,?
Fresno, Cal."
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed it to be covered with excreta; some pupa cases and live?
larva? were present. The raisins were unfit for food at the time of examina??
tion.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it consisted, in whole or in part, of a filthy and decomposed vegetable?
substance.
On March 24, 1916, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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