15269. Adulteration   and   lnlnbrandinK'   of   canned  tomatoes.     V.   S.   v.  "Vt il-
11am E. Morris  (Burlington County Canning- Co.).     Plea of guilt>.
FHue,   $200.     (F.   &  D   No    21585.     I.   S    Nos    13691-x,   13692-x,   13693-x,< 
13694-x.)
On May 27, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
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 E 
Morris, trading as the Burlington County Canning Co., Vincentown, N. J., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
in various consignments, on or about August 25, August 31, September 10, and 
September 16, 1926, respectively, from the State of New Jersey into the State 
of Pennsylvania, of quantities of canned tomatoes, which were adulterated 
and misbranded. A portion of the article was labeled, in part: (cases) 
" Tomatos."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, added tomato puree, tomato pulp, or juice from tomato 
skins and cores, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in 
part for tomatoes* which the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, " Tomatos," 
borne on each of a number of the eases containing the article, was false and 
misleading, in that the said statement represented that the article consisted 
solely of tomatoes, and for the further, reason that it was labeled as aforesaid 
so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it consisted 
solely of tomatoes, whereas it did not. but consisted, in part, pf added puree, 
tomato pulp, or juice from tomato skins and eores. Misbranding was alleged 
for the further reason that the article was an imitation of and was offered 
for sale under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, tomatoes.
On June 6, 1927, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $200.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.