5178. Adulteration of ice cream.    U. S. v. Beatrice Creamery Co. (Meadow Gold
Dairies). Plea of guilty. Fine, $3,000. (F. D, C. No. 9650. Sample 
Nos. 15782-F to 15784-F, incl., 15938-F, 36004-F, 36006-F.)
This product contained Insect fragments, rodent hair, fragments, feather 
barbules, and hair fragments resembling rodent or cat hairs.
On June 9, 1943, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado filed 
an information against the Beatrice Creamery Co., a corporation, trading at 
Denver, Colo., under the name Meadow Gold Dairies, alleging shipment within 
the period from on or about February 19 to 22, 1943, from the State of Colorado 
into the States of Wyoming and Kansas of quantities of ice cream that was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of filthy substances, and 
in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it may have 
become contaminated with filth. A portion of the article was labeled in part: 
"Smooth-Freeze Meadow Gold Ice Cream."
On June 19, 1943, a plea of guilty having been, entered on behalf of the de- 
fendant, the court imposed a fine of $750 on each of the 4 counts contained in 
the information, a total of $3,000.