20952. Adulteration of  dried  grapes.     U.   S.   v.  Bonner  Packing  Co.     Flea
of guilty.     Fine, $100.     (F. & D. no. 29463.    I. S. no. 32507.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of dried grapes that were 
found to b? in part insect-infested, moldy, and dirty.
On March 16, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Bonner Packing Co., a corporation, 
Fresno, Calif., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about January 26, 1932, from the State of California 
into the State of Washington, of a quantity of dried grapes that were adul- 
terated. The article was labeled in part: "Bonner's Dried Alicante Grapes 
Packed by Bonner Packing Co., Fresno, Cal."
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 April 3, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
R. G. TTTGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.