5970. Adulteration and misbranding of whiteiisn. U. S. * * * v. A. C. II. 
Haase & Sons Fish Co., a corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, §3Q 
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8313.    I. S. No. 10751-m.)
On September 6, 1917, 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 
A. C. L. Haase & Sons Fish Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on 
or about November 28,1916, from the State of Missouri into the State of Kansas, 
of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Extra Family Best Grade Cisco 
White Fish," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the fish were lake herring.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that lake herring had been substituted wholly for whitefish, which the article 
purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement, 
" White fish," borne on the label thereof, regarding the article and the in- 
gredients and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it 
represented that the article was whitefish, and for the further reason that it 
was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead purchasers into the 
belief that it was whitefish, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not, but was 
another variety of fish, to wit, lake herring, and this false, misleading state- 
ment and deceptive labeling were not corrected by the presence on the label of 
the word, " Cisco," which was entirely obscured by the shipping tag. Mis- 
branding of the article was alleged for the further reason that it was food in 
package form, and the quantity of .the contents was not plainly and conspicu- 
ously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or 
numerical count.
On December 11, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $30 and costs.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.