13664. Adulteration and misbranding of sugar.    V. S. v. Mario Betancourt*
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.     (P. & D. No. 17406.    I. S. No. 9090-t.)
On April 21, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Mario Betancourt, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant, in. 
violation of the food and drugs act as amended, on or about May 22, 1920, from, 
the State of New York into the State of North Carolina, of a quantity of a 
product invoiced as sugar which was adulterated and misbranded.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
certain substances, to wit, sweepings, sticks, water, splinters, strings, and vari- 
ous refuse, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower and reduce and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted in large 
part for sugar, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was 
alleged for the further reason that the article consisted in part of a filthy, 
decomposed, and, putrid animal and vegetable substance.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
and sold under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, sugar, and for 
the further reason that it was food in package form and the quantity of the 
contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the 
package.
On June 24, 1925, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.