15346. Adulteration of   scallops.      U.    S.   v.   Archie   S.   Doughty.      Plea   of
guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 19771.    I. S. Nos. 6191-x, 8010-x.)
On October 22, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Archie 
S. Doughty, Quinby, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of 
the food and drugs act, on or about February 2, 1926, from the State of Virginia, 
in part into the State of Pennsylvania, and in part into the State of New York, 
of quantities of scallops, which were adulterated. The article was labeled in 
part:  (Tag) " From Archie S. Doughty    *    *    *    P. O. Quinby, Va."
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 lower, 
reduce, and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substituted in part for 
scallops, which the said article pui^ported to be. Adulteration was alleged for 
the further reason that a valuable constituent of tjie article, to wit, scallop 
solids, had been in part abstracted.
On November 12, 1926, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
W. M. JARMNE, Secretary of Agriculture.