6265.  Adulteration of oysters.    V. S.   *    *    *   v. Albert Fuss.    Plea of guilty.
Fine, $20.     (F. & D. No. 409-c.)
On March 14, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the health officer of said District, filed in the police?
court of the District aforesaid an information against Albert Fuss,. Washington,?
D. C, alleging that said defendant did offer for sale and sell, on November 23,?
1917, at the District aforesaid, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, a quan??
tity of oysters which were adulterated.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
a substance, to wit, water, had been added, so as to reduce and lower and in??
juriously affect its quality and strength.
On March 14, 1918, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $20.
CLARENCE OUSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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