15516. Adulteration of scallops.     U. S. v. William S. Travis (L. B. Travis &
Son).    Plea   of   guilty.    Fine,   $25.     (F.   &  D.   No.   21606.    I.   S.   Nos. 
7795-x, 7796-x, 7798-x )
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On October 25, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
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District Court of the United States for said district an information against
William S. Travis, trading as L. B. Travis & Son, Cape Charles, Va., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, in various 
consignments, on or about February 11, 14, and 17, respectively, from the 
State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of quantities of scallops which 
were adulterated.
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, 
lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted 
in part for scallops, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was 
alleged for the further reason that valuable constituents of the article, to wit, 
scallop solids, had been abstracted in part therefrom
On November 16, 1927, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.