NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2249.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF OYSTERS.
On November 15, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the Supreme Court of said District an information 
against John Bryant, Washington, D. C, alleging the sale by said 
defendant, at the District aforesaid, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on March 25, 1912, of a quantity of oysters in the shell 
which were adulterated.    The product bore no label.
Bacteriological examination of a sample of the product by the 
Bureau of Chemistry of this Department, showed the following re- 
sults : 5 out of 5 oysters showed the presence of gas-producing organ- 
isms in 1 cc quantities of the shell liquor; 5 out of 5 in 0.1 cc quanti- 
ties ; and 5 out of 5 in 0.01 cc quantities. 100 streptococci found in 4 
oysters; 10 streptococci found in 1 oyster; 100 B. coli type found in 
each of 5 oysters. Score 500 points. Adulteration of the product was 
alleged in the information for the reason that it consisted in whole 
or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal or vegetable 
substance.
On November 15, 1912, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to 
the information and the court imposed a fine of $5.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., January #5,1913.
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