H5595. Adulteration of bot sauce. IT. S. v. Stockton Packing Co., a corporation. 
Plea of guilty. Fine, $50. (F. & D. no. 36017. Sample nos. 1584-B, 
4791-B, 12973-B.)
This article consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On November 4, 1935, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Stockton Packing Co., a corporation, 
Stockton, Calif., alleging shipment in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as 
amended, on or about January 15, 1935, from Stockton, Calif., to Baltimore, Md., 
by Griffith-Durney Co., a corporation, San Francisco, Calif., and on or about 
March 19,1935, from San Francisco, Calif., to Hilo, Territory of Hawaii, by Fred 
L. Waldron, Ltd., a corporation, San Francisco, Calif., of quantities of Trou- 
badour Hot Sauce which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: (Can) 
"Troubadour Hot Sauce Contents 7% Oz. * * * Griffith Durney Co. Dis- 
tributors San Francisco Calif., U. S. A."
Adulteration of the article was charged under the allegation that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance. It was further charged 
that the cans of the article in the two shipments aforesaid had been purchased 
by the said Griffith-Durney Co. and by the said Fred L. Waldron, Ltd., from the 
Stockton Packing Co., the defendant, before the making of the shipments, under 
guaranties by the latter that the article was not adulterated or misbranded 
within the meaning of the said act.
On January 15, 1936, a plea of guilty having been entered, a fine of $50 was 
imposed.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.