15843.?Adulteration of tomato puree.     V. S. v. Tennent Products Co.     Plea
of   guilty.     Defendant   placed   on   probation.      (F.   &   D.   No.   22564.?
I. S. No. 13867-x.)
On May 29, 1928, the United States attorney for the district of New Jersey,?
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 Tennent?
Products Co., a corporation, Freehold, N. J., alleging shipment by said com??
pany in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about January 5, 1927, from?
the State of New Jersey into the State of New York, of a quantity of tomato?
puree which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part, " Tennent Brand?
Tomato Puree    *    *    *   Tennent Products Co., Inc., Freehold, N. J."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that it?
consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable?
substance.
On June 4, 1928, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant company. Sentence was suspended, said defendant being?
placed on probation.
ARTHUR M. B.rt>^Seo)'etary of Agrwultwre.