17962. Adulteration of butter and dried skim milk powder.   U. S. v. Central
Farm Products Co. and Edwin Knudsen.   Plea of guilty for corporation 
and plea of nolo contendere by individual defendant.    Corporation
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FOOD,   DRUG,   AND   COSMETIC  ACT 
[F.N.J.
fined $750, plus costs.   Imposition of sentence against individual de- 
fendant suspended; individual placed on probation for 1 year.   (F. D. C.
No. 31081.   Sample Nos. 54892-K, 55061-K, 74156-K.)
Central Farm Products Co., Trenton, Mo., and Edwin Knudsen, vice president 
and plant manager.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about August 29, September 26, and October 5, 1950, 
from the State of Missouri into the States of Texas, Alabama, and New York.
LABEL IN PART: "Solo Brand Roller Dried Skim Milk Powder * * * 
Central Farm Products Co." and "Butter   Central Farm Products Co."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted 
in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of (dried skim milk 
powder) fly heads, carpet beetle larvae, feather barbules, insect fragments, 
moth scales, larval cast skins, and manure fragments, and (butter) insect 
fragments, manure fragments, and rodent hair fragments.
DISPOSITION : May 25, 1951. A plea of guilty having been entered for the cor- 
poration and a plea of nolo contendere having been entered by the individual 
defendant, the corporation was fined $750, plus costs, and the imposition of 
sentence against the individual defendant was suspended and he was placed on 
probation for 1 year.