2775. Adulteration of peanut  butter.    TT.  S. v.   Sessions   Co.,  Inc.     Plea of nolo
contendere.    Fine, $100.     (F. D. C. No. f'COO.     Sample Nos. 29321-E, 29433-E, 
35244-E, 35417-E, 35418-E, 35901-E, 37777-E.)
Samples of this product were found to contain rodent hairs, rodent excreta 
fragments, miscellaneous insect fragments', and larvae.
On March 11, 1912, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Alabama filed an information against Sessions Co., Inc., a corporation at Enter- 
prise, Ala., alleging shipment within the period from on or about October 2 to on 
or about December 30,1940, from the State of Alabama into the States of Georgia, 
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee, of quantities of peanut butter that was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, and in 
that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it might have 
become contaminated with filth. The article was labeled in part: "Goldcraft [or 
"School Day" or "Armour's Star    *    *    *    "] Peanut Butter."
On March 31, 1942, the defendant having entered a plea of nolo contendere, the 
court imposed a fine of $20 on each of the five counts, totaling $100.