7551. Adulteration of oysters.    U. S.   *    *    *   v. J. & J. W. Elsworth Co., a
Corporation.     Plea   of   e-wilty.     Fine,   $25.     (F.   &  D.   No.   12296.     I.   S. 
Nos. 13380-r, 13743-r.)
On or about April 17, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict 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 the J. & J. W. Elsworth Co., a corporation, New York, N. Y., alleging 
shipment by said defendant company, on or about January 15 and January 28, 
1919, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of New York into 
the State of Pennsylvania, of quantities of oysters which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it had been soaked with water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with the article so 
as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and strength.
On April 21, 1920, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the in- 
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.