6672.  Aaxiltei-atiom of ?>ystea?s.    TJ. &>   *   *   *   v. The Paasch, Ba??tfters Oys-ter- 
Co., a corporation*    Plea, of gwiMy.    Bine, $S.     (B\ & D. No? 7630.    I. S 
Noa. 10367-1, 10368-1.)
On July 24, 1917, the United. States attorney for the- Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, fried in the- 
District Court of the- United States fox said district an Information against 
The Pausch Bros. Oyster Co., a corporation, Port Chester, N". Y., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Aet, on January 1, 
1916 (two shipments), from the State of New York into the State of Minnesota, 
of quantities of oysters, which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the artiele by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
No. 1.        No. 2.
Weight of drained solids (grams) 
990 948
Weight of free liquor (grams) 
70 97
Loss, on boiling (per cent)- 
55.3       52.0
Drained oyster meat.
Total solids   (per cent 
16.00     16.38
Ash (per cent) 
1.12 .99
Sodium chlorid (per cent) 
.08 .04*
Free liquor.
Sodium chlorid (percent) 
.25 .25
These oysters contained added water.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment 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 July 27, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed' a fine of $5.
O. F. MAEvm, Afftwff Secretary of Agriculture.