8071.?Misbranding  of herring.     U. S.     *     *     *     v. William  G.  Dunton, A.
James, jr., and R. Wesley Willey (Irvingrton Packing' Co.). Plea?
of guilty.    Pine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 9814.    I. S. No. 4070-p.)
On May 29, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Vir??
ginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against William G.?
Dunton, A. James, jr., and R. Wesley Willey, a partnership, trading as the Irving-?
ton Packing Co., Irvington, Va., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about .June 5, 1918, from the?
State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of certain quantities of an article?
which was misbranded.
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed that none of the containers of the article were labeled as to the net?
weight thereof.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in that the article was food in package?
form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked?
on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, and numerical count.
On October 6, 1919, the defendants pleaded guilty to the information, and the?
court imposed a fine of $50.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.