1357. Adulteration of candy.    IT. S. v. Donald B. Weiner and Douglass J. Thomas
(Thomas Bros. Candy Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $500 against each de- 
fendant. (F. D. C. No. 2865. Sample Nos. 9753-E, 9756-B, 15116-B, 15117-E, 
15118-E, 15510-E, 15511-B, 15516-E to 15519-E. incl., 15522-B, 15532-E, 
15607-E, 15612-E, 15613-E, 20221-E, 20222-E, 20223-E, 20578-E.)
Samples of this product were found to contain rodent hairs, rodent excreta, 
and insect fragments.
On November 27, 1940, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee filed an information against Donald B. Weiner and Doug-lass J. Thomas, 
copartners, trading as Thomas Bros. Candy Co., at Memphis, Tenn., alleging 
shipment within the period from on or about February 2 to on or about June 7, 
1940, from the State of Tennessee into the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, 
Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia, of quantities of candy that was adul- 
terated. The article was variously labeled in part: "Papa Stick"; "Truck 
The Candy Bar That Gives you Pep"; "Circus Brand Peanut Bar"; "Whole Meal 
Peanut Bar"; "Jumbo Penny Stick"; "Giant Peanut Bar"; "Peco Bars"; "Joe 
Lewis"; "72 Circus Brand Green Stem Apple Suckers" ; "Old Fashion Peanut Bar."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole and in 
part of a filthy substance; and in that it had been prepared under insanitary 
conditions whereby it might have become contaminated with filth.
On December 12, 1940, pleas of guilty having been entered by the defendants, 
the court imposed fines totaling $500 against each.