29250. Adulteration of frozen turkeys.    U. S. v. Armour & Co.    Plea of nolo con- 
tendere.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 40805.    Sample No. 54898-C.)
This product was decomposed. In addition, a portion of it was rat-eaten 
and was contaminated with rat excreta.
On May 2,1938, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against Armour & Co., a corporation, trading at Fall River, 
Mass., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act on or about November 18, 1937, from the State of Massachusetts into the 
State of Rhode Island, of a quantity of frozen turkeys that were adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On July 25, 1938, a plea of nolo contendere having been entered in behalf of 
the defendant, the court imposed a fine of $50.
HABET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.