19949. Adulteration of dried cherries.    U. S. v. Crawford A. Porter.    (F. M.
Burnham & Co.), and Otzen Packing Co.    Pleas of guilty.    Fines, 
$50.     (F. & D. No. 27555.    I. S. No. 22021.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of dried 
cherries, samples of which were found to be insect-infested, moldy, and dirty.
On May 3, 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 Crawford A. Porter, trading as F. M. Burnham & Co., and the Otzen 
Packing Co., a corporation, San Francisco, Calif., alleging shipment by said 
defendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about March 14, 1931, 
from the State of California into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of dried 
cherries that were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: (Boxes) 
" California Dried Cherries."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On June 17, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant corporation and the court imposed a fine of $25. On the same 
date a plea of guilty was entered by the defendant, Crawford A. Porter, and a 
similar fine of $25 was imposed.
HENET A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.