20992. Adulteration   and   Misbranding of   dried   grapes.    U.   S.   *v.   Luigi
Severini.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. no. 29510.    Sample no. 
218-A.)
This action was based on an interstate shipment of a number of cases of 
dried grapes which were insect-infested, moldy, and dirty, and which were 
not labeled on the cases with a statement of the quantity of the contents.
On April 7, 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 Luigi Severini, Fresno, Calif., alleging 
shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended, 
on or about May 4, 1932, from the State of California into the State of Oregon, 
of a quantity of dried grapes which were adulterated and misbranded. The 
article was labeled in part: " Zinfandel Packed for Vito Vitti Portland-Or."
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 vegetable substance.
Misbranding was alleged for the 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.
On April 17, 1933, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
R. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.