7910. Adulteration of oysters. IT. S. * * * v. IV. P. Hoasman Oyster Co., 
a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Pine, $25. (F. & D. No. 10775. I. S. 
No. G715-1-.)
On November IS, J 919, 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 
N. P. Housman Oyster Co., New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by the defend- 
ant, on January 3, 1919, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State 
of New York into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of oysters which wera 
alleged to be adulterated.
Analysis of a sample by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed 
that the product had been excessively washed with water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information in that a sub- 
stance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with the article so as to 
lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the 
further reason that a substance, to wit, water, had been substituted in part for 
oysters which the article purported to be.
On December 10, 1919, tl e defendant entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.