29898. Adulteration of canned tomato paste.   U. S. v. Page's Gold Medal Canning
Co., Inc. Plea of guilty. Fine, $150 on each of 3 counts: payment 
suspended on all counts but first. (F. & D. No. 42548. Sample Nos. 
1227-D, 9981-D, 9988-D, 22423-D.)
This product contained excessive mold.
On August 8, 1938, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
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district court an information against Page's Gold Medal Canning Co., Inc 
Albion, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company on or about December 30,1937, 
and January 27 and March 2, 1938, from the State of New York into the States 
of Pennsylvania and Ohio, of quantities of canned tomato paste which was 
adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act The article was labeled 
in part: "Page's Gold Medal Italian Style with Sweet Basil Tomato Paste"
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of 
a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On November 10, 1938, the defendant having entered a plea of guilty, the 
court imposed a fine of $150 on each of 3 counts, but suspended payment on all 
counts but count 1.
HAKBT L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.