5882. Adulteration of   milk.    U.   S.   *    *   *   v.   William   Waters.    Plea   aŁ 
g-mlty.    Fine, $10.    (P. & D. No. 341-c.)
On September 4, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia, acting upon a report by the health officer of said District, authorized by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the police court of the District aforesaid 
an information against William Waters, Germantown, Md., alleging shipment 
by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on August 4, 1917, 
from the State of Maryland into the District of Columbia, of a quantity of 
milk which was adulterated.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it had been mixed and packed with a substance, to wit, water, which re- 
duced and lowered its quality.
On September 4, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.