19433. Adulteration of tomato catsup.    IT. S. v. Earle M. Rush (Rush Can¬
ning: Co.). Plea of gmllty. Fine, $10. (F. & D. No. 26596. I. S. Nos. 
14253, 19667.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of quantities of tomato catsup 
which was found to contain excessive mold.
On August 22, 1931, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information 
against Earle M. Rush, trading as the Rush Canning Co., Bentonville, Ark., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on 
or about September 19, 1930, from the State of Arkansas into the State of 
Texas, and on or about October 8, 1930, from the State of Arkansas into the 
State of Kansas, of quantities of tomato catsup that was adulterated. The 
article was labeled in part: " Queen's Taste Brand Catsup * * * Packed by 
Rush Canning Co., Principal Office, Washburn, Mo."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On September 1, 1931, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
AETHTTE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.