19833. Adulteration of   canned   prunes.    V.   S.   v.   Eugene   Fruit   Growers
Association.    Plea  of guilty.    Fine, 850.     (F.  & D.  No. 27547.    I. S. 
Nos. 14623, 24032.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of quantities of canned 
prunes, samples of which were found to be partially decomposed.
On May 10, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 the 
Eugene Fruit Growers Association, a corporation, Eugene, Oreg., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in part on or about November 26, 1930, and in part on or 
about December 17, 1930, in violation of the food and drugs act, from the State 
of Oregon into the States of Kansas and Illinois, of quantities of canned prunes 
that were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) " Winwoocl 
Brand    *    *    *    Italian Prunes " and " Blossom Brand Prune Plums."
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 vegetable 
substance.
On May 10, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.