5918. Adulteration of  candied and placed fruits.     V.  S.  v.  Golden Brand  Nut
Products, Inc., and Bernard A. Silverman.    Pleas of guilty.    Corporation 
fined $1,500, and individual placed on probation for 1 year.     (F. D. C.
No. 10581.    Sample Nos. 3358-F to 3360-F, incl., 23275-F, 37676-F.)
INFORMATION FILED : December 27, 1943, Southern District of New York, against 
the Golden Brand Nut Products, Inc., New York, N. Y., and Bernard A. Sil- 
verman, president of the corporation. 
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ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about April 5 and May 3, 1943, from the State of 
New York into the States of Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
LABEL IN PART: "The Finest Grown—Best Known Assorted Fruits," "Orange- 
Stuffed Dates w. Nuts," or "Glace Fruit."
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted 
in whole or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of one or 
more of the following types of filth: Insect parts, rodent hair fragments, a 
human hair fragment, unidentified hair fragments, hair fragments resembling 
cat hairs, larvae and adult insects, larvae and insect heads, insect fragments, 
a rodent excreta pellet, mites, and thrips; and, Section 402 (a) (4), they had 
been prepared and packed under insanitary conditions whereby they might 
have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION : January 5, 1944. Pleas of guilty were entered. The corporation 
was fined $500 on each of 3 counts, totaling $1,500. The court suspended the 
imposition of sentence on the individual defendant and placed him on probation 
for 1 year.