4533. Adulteration of cake.    U.  S. v.  Sheppard Baking Co. and Israel Shapiro.
Pleas of guilty. Fines, $600 against the corporation, $3 against the indi- 
vidual defendant. (F. D. C. No. 6486. Sample Nos. 69841-E, 69842-B, 
69860-E to 69862-B, incl., 74016-E to 74019-E, incl., 74024-E.)
On July 22, 1942, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey 
filed an information against the Sheppard Baking Co., a corporation, North 
Bergen, N. J.f and Israel Shapiro, alleging shipment within the period from on 
or about August 6 to 26, 1941, from the State of New Jersey into the States of 
Connecticut and New York of quantities of cake 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: "Betty Jane A Grand Cake."
On February 6, 1943, pleas of guilty having been entered oh behalf of the 
defendants, the court imposed a fine of $200 against the corporation on each 
of the 3 counts and a fine of $1 against the individual defendant on each of 
the same counts. ,