4618. Adulteration of crab meat.    17. S. v. Robert L,. Wharton  (R. L. Wharton
Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $250 and costs.    (F. D.'C No. 8748.    Sample 
No. 24818-F.)
On January 5, 1943, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland 
filed an information against Robert L. Wharton, trading as R. L. Wharton Co. 
at Crisfield, Md., alleging shipment on or about July 23, 1942, from the State of 
Maryland into the State of New Jersey of a quantity of crab meat that was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, by 
reason of the presence of fecal pollution, and in that it had been prepared 
under insanitary conditions whereby it might have become contaminated with 
filth.
On March 19, 1943. the defendant having entered a plea of guilty, the court 
imposed a fine of $250 and costs.