3285.?Adnlteration of oysters.     TJ.  S.  v.  Rollie H.  "White.     Pica  of gnilty.
Fine, $5.     (F. & D. No. 2798.    I. S. Nos. 17202-c, 17,214-c.)
On January 14, 1914, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court?
of said District an information against Rollie H. White, Washington, D. C,?
alleging the sale by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on March 1 and 2, 1911, at the District aforesaid, of quantities of oysters which?
were adulterated. Examinations of samples of the products by the Bureau of?
Chemistry of this department showed that sample No. 1 contained 600,000?
organisms per cc on plain agar, 1,000 being gas-producing organisms of the?
B. coli type; and that sample No. 2 contained 2,000,000 organisms per cc, 1,000?
being gas-producing organisms of the B. coli type. Adulteration of the product?
was alleged in the information for the reason that it consisted in whole and?
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal and vegetable substance.
On January 14, 1914, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to tile informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture*
WASHINGTON, D. O., June 8,191k-
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BUREAU   OP   CHEMISTKY.	
[June, 1914.