5921. Adxilteration and misbranding of red kidney beans and adnliex-atioja 
of pork and bKans. U. S. * * * v. Norfolk Packing: Co., a cor- 
poration. Plea of gjniliy. Fine, $35 and costs. (F, & D, No. 7967. 
I. S. Nos. 10094-1, 11807-1.)
At the September, 1916, term of the District Court of the United States for 
the District of Nebraska, the United States attorney for the said district, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
aforesaid an information against the Norfolk Packing Co., a .corporation, 
Norfolk, Nebr., alleging shipment by said company, in violation ef the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about February 25, 1916, from the State of Nebraska 
into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Har- 
vest Treasure Brand Bed Kidney Beans Packed by Norfolk Packing Co., Nor- 
folk, Nebr.," which was adulterated and misbranded, and on March 31, 1916, 
from the State of Nebraska into the State of Missouri of a quantity of an 
article labeled in part, " Marco Brand Pork and Beans," which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed each product to contain a large amount of partially de- 
composed bKans.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information 
for the reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
Misbranding of the red kidney beans was alleged in substance for the 
reason that the statement regarding the article and the ingredients and sub- 
stances contained therein, to wit, " Red Kidney Beans * * * Packed to 
conform with the National Pure Food Laws," was false and misleading in that 
it represented to purchasers that the article consisted of red kidney beans 
which had been packed to conform with the national pure food laws, and 
further, for the reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and 
mislead purchasers into the belief that it consisted of red kidney beans which 
had been packed to conform with the national pure food laws, when, in truth 
and in fact, it did not, but consisted of, to wit, red kidney beans which were 
partially decomposed.
On September 15, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.