7573. Adulteration of mackerel.     TJ.  S.     *     *     *     v. Dench & Hardy Co., a
Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $200. (F. & D. No. 11444. I. S. 
No.  14006-r.)
On December G, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Dench & Hardy Co., a corporation, Boston, Mass., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 9, 
1919, from the State of Massachusetts into the State of New York, of a 
quantity of mackerel which was adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this department showed that the mackerel were soft, mushy, and decom- 
posed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On December 31, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to 
iUe information, and the court imposed a fine of $200.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.