3143. Adulteration of tomato paste.    TJ. B. v. Hartmann Canning Co., Ine.    Plea
of guilty.    Fines, $400; payment of $300 suspended.     (F. D. C. No. 5506. 
Sample Nos. 34720-E, 36484-B, 46392-E, 46397-E.)
On December 1, 1941, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
New York filed an information against Hartmann Canning Co., Inc., a corpora- 
tion at Macedon, N. Y., alleging shipment within the period from on or about 
September 26, 1940, to on or about January 25, 1941, from the State of New 
•York into the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, of quantities of" tomato 
paste that was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a decom- 
posed substance. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) "Scarlati Tomato 
Paste With Sweet Basil."
On February 23, 1942, the defendant having entered a plea of guilty, the 
court imposed a fine of $100 on each count, totaling $400. Payment of the fines 
on counts II, III, and IV was suspended.