22479. Adulteration of noodles.    U. S. v. Mrs. Quong Choy and Leong Sung
(Republic Noodle Factory).    Pleas of guilty.    Fines, $200.     (F. & D.
no. 31459.    Sample no. 27946-A.)
This case was based on a shipment of noodles which contained artificial color 
and excessive moisture.
On May 9, 1934, 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 Mrs. Quong Choy, trading with another 
as the Republic Noodle Factory, San Francisco, Calif., and Leong Sung, of San 
Francisco, Calif., an employee of said firm, alleging shipment by said defendants 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about January 23, 1933, from the 
State of California into the State of Oregon, of a quantity of noodles which 
were adulterated.   The article was labeled in part: " Republic Noodle Factory
* *    *    San Francisco, Cal. Hung Far Low Portland, Ore."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
was an article inferior to plain noodles, and which contained excessive moisture 
and was artificially colored with tartrazine, a coal-tar dye, so as to simulate 
the appearance of plain noodles and in a manner whereby its inferiority to plain 
noodles was concealed.
On May 11, 1934, the defendants entered pleas of guilty, and the court imposed 
a fine of $100 on each.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.