14585   Adulteration and misbranding of tomato puree and strained toma- 
toes.    U.   S.  v.  Keough   Canning:  Co.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $200.
(F  & D. No. 19761.    I. S. Nos. 5442-x, 7151-x to 7157-x, incl.)
At the April, 1926, term of the United States District Court within and for 
the District of New Jersey, the United States attorney for said district, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court afore- 
said an information against the Keough Canning Co., a corporation, Glassboro, 
N. J., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the food and drugs act, 
in various consignments between the approximate dates of August 27 and Octo- 
ber 10, 1925, from the State of New Jersey, in part into the State of New York, 
and in part into the State of Massachusetts, of quantities of tomato puree and 
strained tomatoes which were adulterated, and a portion of which were mis- 
branded. A portion of the strained tomatoes was labeled in part: (Can) " Blue 
Coat Brand" (or " Holly Bush Brand") "Packed By Keough Canning Co., 
Glassboro, N. J. Made From Whole Sound Ripe Tomatoes." The remainder 
of the products'were labeled in part: (Can) " Sweet Life Brand Fancy Tomato 
Puree," " See Bee Brand Strained Tomatoes," or " Lily White Brand ? * .* 
Concentrated Strained Tomatoes," as the case might be.     ;
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the information for the reason that 
they consisted in part of filthy and decomposed and putrid vegetable substances.
Misbranding was alleged with respect to a portion of the product for the 
reason that the statement, to wit, " Made From Whole Sound Ripe Tomatoes," 
borne on the labels of the said portion, was false and misleading, in that the 
said statement represented that the article was made exclusively from whole, 
sound, ripe tomatoes, and for the further reason that it was labeled as afore- 
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was made 
exclusively from whole, sound, ripe tomatoes, whereas it was not but was made 
in part from partially decomposed tomatoes.
On July 7, 1926, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of 
the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $200.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.