5421. Adulteration of crackers.    U.   S. v.  United Biscuit  Company of America
(Union Biscuit Company, Division of United Biscuit Company of Amer- 
ica). Plea of nolo contendere. Fine, $2,000. <F. D. C. No. 9620. Sample 
Nos. 5866-F to 5869-F, in.cB)
On May 1,1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri 
filed an information against the Union Biscuit Company, a corporation, operating 
under the name Union Biscuit Company, Division of the United Biscuit Company 
of America. On June 28,1943, the Union Biscuit Company, Division of the United 
Biscuit Company of America, a corporation, entered a special appearance and 
a plea denying that it was a corporation. On September 20, 1943, an amended 
information was filed, naming the United Biscuit Company of America, a cor- 
poration, operating under the name of Union Biscuit Company, Division of the 
United Biscuit Company of America, as defendant. It was alleged in the infor- 
mation, as amended, that the defendant had shipped, within the period from 
on or about December 14, 1942, to on or about January 5, 1943, from the State 
of Missouri into the State of Tennessee quantities of crackers which were adul- 
terated. The article was labeled in part: "Princess Crackers," "Honey Flavored 
Graham Crackers," or "Supreme Che-Zo-Crackers."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence therein of rodent hairs and 
insect fragments, and in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions 
whereby it may have become contaminated with filth.
On December 16,1943, a plea of nolo contendere having been entered on behalf 
of the defendant, the court imposed a fine of $500 on each of the 4 counts, a total 
fine of $2,000.