30421. Adulteration of dried apricots.    IT. S. v. Richard Fair  (R. Fair).     Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $50.    (F. & D. No. 42623.    Sample No. 17972-D.)
This product was in part decomposed and worm-infested.
On December 2, 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 Richard Fair, trading as R. Fair at Modesto, 
Calif., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about July 2, 1938, from the State of California into the State of 
New York of a quantity of dried apricots that were adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole or in part 
of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 15, 1939, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $50.
M. -L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.