11456. Adulteration of potato chips.   V. S. v. Red Dot Foods and Andrew B. Laing.
Pleas of guilty. Fines of $200 against the partnership and $25 against 
the individual. (F. D. C. No. 20451. Sample Nos. 19535-H, 19540-H, 50655-H, 
50656-H.)
INFORMATION FILED : July 17, 1946, District of Minnesota, against Red Dot 
Foods, a partnership, St. Paul, Minn., and Andrew B. Laing, plant manager.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about December 28 and 29,1945, and January 2,1946, 
from the State of Minnesota into the States of Iowa, Wisconsin, and North 
Dakota.
LABEL IN PART :   "Red Dot   *    *   *   Potato Chips."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), a portion of the article 
consisted in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of rodent 
hairs and insect fragments, and the remainder consisted in part of a decomposed 
substance by reason of the presence of decomposed potato material; and, 
Section 402 (a) (4), the article had been prepared under insanitary conditions 
whereby it may have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION : August 6, 1946. Pleas of guilty having been entered on behalf of 
both defendants, the court imposed fines of $200 against the partnership "defend- 
ant and $25 against the individual defendant.
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