832S.  Adulteration  of  scallops.     V.  S.    *    *    *    v.   Morehead   City  Sea  Food?
Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $10 and costs.     (P. & D.
??   No.   9152.    I.   S.   No.   2GG9-P.)
On or about September 30. 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern?
District of North Carolina, 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 Morehead City Sea Food Co., a corporation, Morehead City, N. C,?
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on?
or about January 22, 191S, from the State of North Carolina into the State of?
Massachusetts, of a quantity of scallops which were adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that the scallops had been soaked.?
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Adulteration of .the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
; that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to?
lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality, and added water had been?
substituted in part for scallops, which the article purported to be.
On February 7, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on?
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.