30133. Adulteration of  crab  meat.     U.   S.  v.  Irving  H.   Crocheron   (Crocheron*
Bros. Packing Co.).    Pleas of guilty.    Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D-
No. 42629.    Sample Nos. 34036-D, 34151-D, 34152-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On November 30, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Irving H. Crocheron, trading as Crocheron Bros. 
Packing Co., Crocheron, Md., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act within the period from on or about July 7, 1938, to- 
on or about July 28, 1938, from the State of Maryland into the State of Penn- 
sylvania, of quantities of crab meat that was adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole or in part 
of a filthy animal substance, namely, filthy crab meat.
On January 20, 1939, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
HABBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.