7181. Misbranding of grapes. U. S. * * * v. Frnit Growers and Snippers 
Union, a corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. &
D. No. 9965.    I. S. Nos. 6387-r, 6388-r.)
On July 18, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Fruit Growers and Shippers Union, a corporation, Nauvoo, Ill., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended,, 
on or about September 17, 1918 (2 shipments), from the State of Illinois into 
the State of Missouri, of a quantity of grapes which were misbranded. In one 
of the shipments the baskets were labeled in part, " Not less than 5i lbs. net."
Examination of samples of the article in one of the shipments showed that 
none of the baskets bore statements as to the quantity of the contents thereof. 
The average shortage in net weight of the baskets in the other shipment was 
10.6 per cent of the declared weight.
Misbranding of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information 
for the reason that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the con- 
tents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package. 
Misbranding of the article in one of the shipments was alleged for the further 
reason that the statement, to wit, " 5J lbs. net," borne on the baskets contain- 
ing the article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances contained therein, 
was false and misleading in that it represented that said baskets contained 5- 
pounds of the article, and for the further reason that it was labeled as afore- 
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that said baskets 
contained 54 pounds of the article, whereas, in truth and in fact, said baskets 
did not contain 5J pounds of the article, but contained a less amount.
0n September 9, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.