15029. Adulteration of   oysters.      U.   S.   v.   Booth   Fisheries   Co.      Plea   o 
guilty.    Fine,  $5 and  costs.     (F.  & D.  No.  21579.    I.   S.   Nos.  7381-x- 
7382-x.)
On March 30, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 Booth Fish- 
eries Co., a corporation, trading at Baltimore, Md., alleging shipment by said 
company in violation of the food and drugs act on or about October 26, 1926,. 
from the State of Maryland into the State of Pennsylvania, of quantities of 
oysters which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " Fresh 
Famous Booth Sea Foods Oysters    *    *    *   'Chicago, Ill."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that 
a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been 
substituted in part for oysters, which the said article purported to be.
On April 7, 1927, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $5 and costs.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.