S703. Adulteration of tonrato puree. V. S. * * * v. Sailors Faclcing1?
Co., a Corporation.     Pica, of guilty.     Fine, $100 antl costs*     (F. & D.
No   9857.    I. S. No. 9251-p )
On May 1, 1920, the grand jurors of the United States within and for the Dis??
trict of Indiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, upon pre??
sentment by the United States attorney for said district, returned in the District?
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an indictment against the.?
Sailors Packing Co., a corporation, Kokomo, Ind., charging shipment by said?
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on December 6, 1917, from?
the State of Indiana into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of tomato purSei?
which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part, " Stewed and Strained?
Tomato Puree Packed by the Sailors Packing Co. Kokomo, Ind. U. S. A."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed the puree to be partially decomposed.
Adulteration of the article was charged in the indictment for the reason that?
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable?
substance.
On June 29, 1920, a plea of guilty to the indictment was entered on behalf of?
the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secietary of Agriculture.