12352. Adulteration   of  raisins.    U.   S.   v.   The   "Williamson-Ttalsell-Frasier
Co., a Corporation.    Plea of gruilty.    Fine, S75.     (F. & D. No. 17913. 
I. S. No. 6028-v.)
On December 13, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Oklahoma, 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 Williamson-Halsell-Frasier Co., a corporation, Chickasha, Okla., alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about 
October 25, 1922, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Texas, of a 
quantity of raisins which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
"Louis Brand * * * Seeded Raisins Packed For The Williamson-Halsell- 
Frasier Co.    *    *    *    Chickasha, Okla."
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed that it contained insect webs and excreta.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole and in ^part of ar filthy and decomposed vegetable 
substance.       ' ?' 
On May 6, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company,
" and the court imposed a fine of $75 and costs.
HOWAED M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.