19698. Adulteration of figs.    U. S. v. Albert Asher (Albert Asher Co.).    Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $50.    (F. & D. No. 27433.    I. S. No. 11169.)
This action was based on a shipment of figs, samples of which were found 
to be wormy and moldy.
On March 28, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information 
against Albert Asher, trading as the Albert Asher Co., San Francisco, Calif., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
on or about June 30, 1931, from the State of California into the State of Idaho 
of a quantity of figs that were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
"Progress Brand Choice California Black Figs Packed by Albert Asher Co., 
San Francisco, California."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid vegeta- 
ble substance.
On April 12, 1932, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
HENRY A.  WALLACE,  Secretary of Agriculture.