5263. Adulteration of spagrbetti.    U. S. v. JVlagara Macaroni Manufacturing: Co.,
Inc.   Plea   of   guilty.    Fine,   $500.    (F.   D.   C.   No.   10568.    Sample  Nos. 
21672-F, 21683-F.)
Samples of this product were found to contain insect fragments, rodent hair 
fragments, and hair fragments resembling rodent hair.
On October 11, 1943, the United States attorney for. the Western District of 
New York filed an information against the Niagara Macaroni Manufacturing 
Co., Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., alleging shipment on or about March 1 and 25,1943, from 
the State of New York into the State of Ohio of a quantity of spaghetti that 
was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, 
arid in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it may 
have become contaminated with filth. The article was labeled in part: "Romano 
Spaghetti * * * Rose & Johnson Co. Youngstown, Ohio," or "Romano 
Spaghetti," 
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On November 8, 1943, a plea of guilty having been entered on behalf of the 
defendant, the court imposed a fine of $500.