28036. Adulteration of canned shrimp.     U. S. v. Marko Skrmetta   (Deer Island
Fish & Oyster Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $300. (F. & D. No. 38668. 
Sample Nos. 7151-C, 7744-C, 12247-C, 15832-C, 15833-C, 15834-C, 15840-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On April 6, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Marko Skrmetta, trading as Deer Island 
Fish & Oyster Co., at Bayou Labatre, Ala., alleging shipment by the defendant 
on or about August 7 and 11 and September 2 and 19, 1936, from the State of 
Alabama into the States of Virginia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts of 
quantities of canned shrimp which was adulterated in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The respective portions of the article were labeled in part: "Gulf's 
Best Brand Shrimp Packed by Deer Island Fish & Oyster Co., Bayou Labatre, 
Ala., Biloxi, Miss."; and "S G Brand Wet Shrimp * * * Distributors 
Standard Grocery Company Boston Providence D. C. and H. Co. New Bedford."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of a 
decomposed animal substance.
On October 5, 1937, a plea of guilty was entered by the defendant and he was ( 
sentenced to pay a fine of $300.
HAERT L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.