30365. Adulteration of prunes.     V.  S. v.  Winchester Dried Fruit  Co.    Plea of
nolo contendere.    Fine, $50.    (F. & D. No. 40792.    Sample No. 48126-C.)
This product was in large part filthy and decomposed.
On April 15, 1938, 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 the Winchester Dried Fruit Co., a corpora- 
tion, San Jose, Calif., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 13, 1937, from the State of California 
into the State of Maryland of a quantity of prunes that were adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 18, 1939, a plea of nolo contendere was entered on behalf of the 
defendant, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
HABBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.