24253. Adulteration of   candy.  ,/U.    is.   v.   Irving   Levine,   Morris    Singer,
Romalne Candy Corporation, and .Irving Candy Co. Pleas of 
guilty. Defendants Morris Singer and Irving Levine fined $104 
each; sentence suspended .as to remaining defendants.     (F. & D.
no. 33917.    Sample no, 5§613-A.)„
This case was based on interstate shipments of candy.that contained alcohol.
.,;, On January 11, 1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the. Secretary of Agriculture, filed in
, the district court an information against Irving Levine and Morris Singer, 
the Romaine Candy Corporation, a -corporation,. and, the Irving Candy Co., 
trading at Brooklyn, N, Y., alleging shipment by said defendants in violation
,;of the Food and Drugs Act, between the; dates of December 21, 1933, and
^January 16, 1934, from the State of New.York into the State of Pennsylvania
pi quantities of candy which was; adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated under the provisions of the act
^applicable to confectionery in that it contained spirituous liquor.
: ,On, January 15, 1935, pleas of guilty were entered by the defendants and 
the court imposed a fine of $104 against each of the defendants Morris Singer 
and Irving Levine, and suspended sentence as to the Irving Candy Co. and 
the Romaine Candy Corporation. 
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M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.