4630. Adulteration of canned blackberries.   U. S. v. Stayton Canning Co. CooperaŹ
tive.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $150.    (F. D. C. No. 7755.    Sample No. 93226-E.)
This product contained moldy berries.
On November 24, 1942, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon 
filed an information against the Stayton Canning Co. Cooperative, a corporation, 
at Stayton, Oreg.; alleging that on or about September 19, 1941, the defendant 
gave to Wadhams & Co. a guaranty that all food products delivered by the defend- 
ant to said company would be neither adulterated nor misbranded within the 
meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; that on or about October 
8, 1941, the defendant sold and delivered quantities of canned blackberries to 
Wadhams & Oo. which were, on or about the same date, shipped in interstate 
commerce by the purchaser from the State of Oregon into the State of Washing- 
ton. The information charged further that the defendant, in violation of said 
act, gave a guaranty which was false since the product so sold and delivered 
was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed substance.
On December 8, 1942, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
and the court imposed a fine of $150.