5673. Adulteration of oysters. TJ. ?. * * * v. Tlie Pausch Brothers Oyster 
Co., a corporation. Plea of gnilty. Pine, $5. (F. & D. No. 7631. I. S. 
Nos; 10370-1, 10371-1.)
On July 24, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 Pausch Bros. Oyster Co., a corporation, Port Chester, N. Y., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on January 11, 
1916 (two shipments), from the State of New York into the State of Minnesota, 
of quantities of oysters which were adulterated.
Analysis of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results :.
No. 1. No. 2.
Weight of drained solids (grams) 
847 870
Weight of free liquor (grams) 
80 87
Loss on boiling (per cent) 
53.0 55.9
Drained oyster meat.
Total solids (per cent) 
16.35    15.96
Ash  (percent) 
.84       .90
Sodium chlorid (percent) 
.04       .06
Free liquor.
Sodium chlorid (per cent) 
.22       .24
These oysters contained added water.
Adulteration of the article in 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 part for oysters, which the article pur- 
ported to be.
On July 27, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.