6227. Adulteration  of  oysters.     17.   S.     *      *      *     v.  Alexander  Fi-azer   Co.,?
a  corporation.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $5.      (P.   &  D.   No.   7608.     I.   S.
No.  1697-1.)
On October 2, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
Alexander Frazer Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by?
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on January 19, 1916,?
from the State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of?
oysters which were adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed the presence of added 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 whole or in part for oysters, which the article purported to be.
On December 11, 1916, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the?
information, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
GAEL VEOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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