81027. Adulteration of  dried  peaches  and  dried  apricots.     IT.   S.  v. Dominick
Schiro  (D. Schiro).    Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, $50.    (F. & D. No.
42768.    Sample Nos. 37147-D, 87148-D.)
These shipments of dried fruit were found to contain dead insects, larvae 
and cocoons, insect and rodent excreta, and mold.
On October 24, 1939, 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 Dominlck Schiro, trading as D. 
Schiro at San Jose, Calif., alleging that on or about March 21, 1939, the 
defendant delivered to a transportation company at San Francisco, Calif., for 
shipment by said transportation company in interstate commerce from San 
Francisco, Calif., to New York, N. Y., quantities of dried peaches and dried
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apricots that were adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act They 
were labeled in part: "Packed for Walter M. Field & Co., San Francisco, 
Calif., J M New York."
Adulteration was alleged in that the articles consisted in part of filthy, 
decomposed, and putrid vegetable and animal substances.
On January 26, 1940, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere, and 
the court imposed a fine of $50.
GBOVEB B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.