21427. Adulteration of   noodles.     U.   S.   v.   Joseph   Sunn   and   James   Loo
(Majesty   Paste   Co.).      Fleas   of   guilty.      Fines,   $40.      (F.   &   D.   no.
30126.    Sample no. 232-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of a product which had been 
artificially colored in a manner simulating the appearance of egg noodles, and 
which was found to contain little, if any, egg solids.
On July 7, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Joseph Sunn and James Loo, members 
of a copartnership, trading as Majesty Paste Co., San Francisco, Calif., alleg- 
ing shipment by said defendants in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about May 13, 1932, from the State of California into the State of Washington, 
of a quantity of noodles which were adulterated. The article was labeled in 
part: (Individual package) "Plain Noodles."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product containing an artificial coloring substance, tartrazine, simulating the 
color of egg noodles and containing but a negligible amount of egg solids, if 
any, had been substituted for egg noodles, which the article purported to be. 
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the article had been col- 
ored with an artificial coloring in a manner whereby its inferiority to egg 
noodles was concealed.
On August 5, 1933, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and were each fined $20.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.