9169.  Adulteration of Oysters.     TI.  S.     *     *     *     v.  C. >I. Weser.    Collateral
of $50 forfeited.     (F. & D. No. 14047.    I. S. Nos. 18704-r, 17417-r.)
On March 10, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court 
of the District aforesaid an information against C. H. Weser, Washington, 
D. C, alleging that on March 12 and February 3, 1920, respectively, the said 
defendant did offer for sale and sell at the District aforesaid, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, quantities of oysters which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained added water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substituted 
in part for oysters, which the article purported to be, and for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, oyster solids, had been 
wholly or in part abstracted.
On March 10, 1921, the defendant having entered an appearance, but not de- 
fending the action, the $50 collateral which had been deposited by him was 
declared.forfeited by the court.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.