6261. Adulteration of oysters. IT. S. * * * v. F. Mansfield & Sons Co., 
a corporation. Plea of g-xiilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. No. 7677. I. S. 
Nos. 2855-1, 3744-1, 3751-1, 3834-1.)
On December 5, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Con- 
necticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the F. Mansfield & Sons Co., a corporation, New Haven, Conn., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
January 10, 1916, from the State of Connecticut into the State of New York, 
and on or about December 20, 1915, January 6, 1916, and March 2, 1916, from 
the State of Connecticut into the State of Massachusetts, of quantities of 
oysters which were adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article in each shipment by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of this department showed the presence of added water.
Adulteration of the articlejin each shipment was alleged in the information 
for the reason that a certain substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and 
packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, and had been substituted in whole or in part for oysters, which the 
article purported to be.
On December 12, 1916, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
R. A. PJCABSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.