9043. Adulteration of candy.   TJ. S. v. Kopper's Chocolate Specialty Co., Inc., Fred 
m   Stern, and Karl Frankel.    Pleas of guilty.    Corporate defendant fined
$500; individual defendants fined $500 each and sentenced to serve 1 
day's imprisonment. (F. D. C. No. 9626. Sample Nos. 23161-F, 36865-F to 
36867-F, incl.)
INFORMATION FILED: January 17, 1946, Southern District of New York, against 
Kopper's Chocolate Specialty Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., and Fred Stern, presi- 
dent, and Karl Frankel, secretary-treasurer.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about January 18 and 19, 1943, from the State of 
New York into the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
LABEL IN PART : "Kopper.'s Assorted Dragees," "Kopper's Chocolates," "Lentils," 
or "Mint Dragees."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of rodent hair 
fragments, mammalian hairs resembling rodent hairs, an insect, insect frag- 
ments, and miscellaneous filth such as wood splinters and a feather fragment.
DISPOSITION : January 28, 1946. Pleas of guilty having been entered, the court 
sentenced the corporate defendant to pay a fine of $500 and the individual 
defendants to pay fines of $500' each. Each of the individual defendants was 
also sentenced to serve 1 day's imprisonment.