17419. Misbranding of evaporated apples. U. S. v. Standard Apple Prod- 
ucts (Inc.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $50 and costs. (F. & D. No. 21556. 
I. S. Nos. 6706-x, 6707-x.)
On December 6, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of New York, 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 Standard Apple Products (Inc.), a corporation, trading at Rochester, 
Nv Y., alleging shipments by said company, in violation of the food and drugs 
act as amended, on or about November 23, 1925, from the State of New York 
into the State of North Carolina, of quantities of evaporated apples which 
were misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " 50 Lbs. Net (or "25 Lbs. 
Net.") Victor Evaporated Apples Sulphured Packed by Standard Apple 
Products, Inc. Rochester, N. Y."
It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that 
the statements, " 50 Lbs. Net" and " 25 Lbs. Net," borne on the cases contain- 
ing the article, were false and misleading in that the said statements represent- 
ed that the cases contained 50 pounds or 25 pounds, as the case might be, 
of the said article, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid 
so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that the said cases 
contained 50 pounds or 25 pounds, as the case might be, of the article; where- 
as the said cases contained less than so represented. Misbranding was alleged 
for the further reason 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 that the quantity stated on the package represented 
more than the actual contents thereof.
On July 18, 1929, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
ABTHTUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.