7174. Adulteration of peanuts and peanut butter sandwiches.    U. S. v. Murrell
B.   Frazier    (M.   B.   Frazier   &   Son).    Plea   of   guilty.    Fine, $1,000.
(F. D. C. No. 11407.    Sample Nos. 58710-F to 58719-F, incl., 58721-F.)
INFORMATION FILED: May 26, 1944, District of Columbia, against Murrell B. 
Frazier, trading as M. B. Frazier & Son, Washington D. C, alleging that the 
defendant, on or about December 8 and 11,1943, unlawfully stored andheld in 
interstate commerce in the District of Columbia, and caused to become adul- 
terated, a quantity of peanuts, and that on or about December 8,1943, he unlaw- 
fully manufactured in the District of Columbia a quantity of salted peanuts and 
peanut butter sandwiches which were adulterated.
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted 
in whole or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of larvae, cast 
skins, larva head capsules, adult insects, insect fragments, insect excreta 
pellets, larva or beetle heads, mites, psocids, rodent hair fragments, rodent 
excreta pellets and pellet fragments, and hairs resembling rodent hairs; and, 
Section 402 (a) (4), they bad been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary 
conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION: May 26, 1944. A plea of guilty having been entered, a fine of 
$1,000 was imposed.