5700.  Adulteration   of   grapefruit,    IT.   S.     *     *     *     ?.   Scalzo-Gunn-Florita 
Fruit   Co.,   a   corporation.    Plea   of   gruilty.    Fine,   $35   and   costs.
(F. & D. No. 7721.    I. 8. No. 10484-1.)
On November 28, 1916, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Scalzo-Gunn-Fiorita Fruit Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
October 19,1915, from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quan- 
tity of grapefruit which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part, 
" This fruit is selected and carefully packed."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
Fourteen units out of 32 were entirely free from green color. 
Balance only very slightly green.
Entirely Slightly
yellow fruit,    green fruit.
Solids (per cent) 
8.96 8.55
Total acid as citric (per cent) 
1.44 1.44
Ratio citric acid to solids , 
1:6. 2 1:5.9
The results of analysis show that the grape fruit was not fully
matured.
Adulteration of [the] article was alleged in the information for the reason
that it was colored in a manner whereby its inferiority was concealed.
On November 6, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to tha
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.