4987.  Adulteration of oysters.    V. S.    *    *    *    v. Othniel A. Pendleton.     Plea.
of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. No. 5815.    I. S. No. 3464-1.)
On April 28, 1916, 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 Othniel A. Pendleton, Washington, D. O.,?
alleging the sale by said defendant, on December 18, 1915 at the District afore??
said, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, of a quantity of oysters which?
were adulterated.
Analysis of sample of the article by the Bureau of Chem'stry of this depart??
ment showed the following results:
Liquor   (per cent)?
35.2
Meat  (per cent)?
64.8
Meat.
Loss on boiling (per cent)?
?56.6
Solids  (per cent)?
?13.4
Ash  (per cent)?
?.58
Chlorids as sodium chlorid (per cent)?
?.01
Liquor.
Solids  (per cent)?
    2.63
Ash   (percent)?
      .28
Chlorids as sodium chlorid (per cent)?
      .11
These results show the addition of a material amount of water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that a certain 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 oysters, which the article purported to be.
On April 28, 1916, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
CARL VROOJIAN, Actliuj Secretary of Agriculture.
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