7937. Adulteration of tomato pxilp. XJ. S. * * * v. R. E, Roberts Co., a 
Carpoi*ation. Plea of s'nllty. Flue, $10 and costs. (F. & D. No. 
9809.    I. S. No. 1031-p.)
On May 1, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against R. B. Roberts Co., 
a corporation, Baltimore, Md., alleging shipment by the defendant, on or about 
October 4, 1917, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of Mary- 
land into the State of New York, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part 
" Old Reliable Strained Tomato Trimmings and Tomato Pulp for Soup Packed 
by Lord-Mott Co., Inc. at Baltimore, Md., U. S. A.," which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that the product had been manufactured from partially decayed 
tomatoes.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information In that It consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On May 1, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.