17912. Adulteration and misbranding of processed cheese and processed cheese
food.   U. S. v. H. M. Scott, Inc., and Eugene H. Scott.   Pleas of guilty. 
Fine of $500 distributed equally between defendants.    (F. D. C. No.
30593.    Sample Nos. 55053-K to 55055-K, incl., 85047-K.)
INFORMATION FILED : On or about May 24, 1951, Eastern District of Tennessee, 
against H. M. Scott, Inc., a corporation, Sweetwater, Tenn., and Eugene 
H. Scott, vice president.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about September 22 and 26 and October 20, 1950, 
from the State of Tennessee into the States of Alabama and Virginia.
LABEL, IN PART : "IScott's Mountain Dale Processed Cheese Food [or "Mountain 
Dale Process Cheese"] * * * Manufactured by H. M. Scott Sweetwater, 
Tenn."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration (2 shipments of processed cheese food and 
shipment of processed cheese), Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted in 
part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of insect fragments, mites, 
and rodent hair fragments, and by reason of the use of filth-contaminated milk 
in their preparation; and, Section 402 (a) (4), they had been prepared, packed, 
and held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become con- 
taminated with filth. Further adulteration (all shipments of processed cheese 
food), Section 402 (b) (2), processed cheese food containing more than 45 
percent of moisture and (in 3 of" the 4 shipments) less than 45 percent of 
fat had been substituted in whole or in part for processed cheese food which 
should contain a minimum of 45 percent of fat and a maximum of 45 percent 
of moisture, which the product was represented to be.
Misbranding (processed cheese food), Section 403 (a), the label statements 
"Ingredients: 45% Fat, Water Free Minimum, 45% Moisture Maximum" were 
false and misleading since all lots contained more than 45% of moisture and 
3 of the 4 lots contained less than 45 percent of fat.
DISPOSITION : December 3, 1951. Pleas of guilty having been entered, the court 
imposed a total fine of $500 to be distributed equally between the defendants.