10274.?Misbranding  of canned crab  meat.     IT.  S.     *     *     *     v. James  C. W.
Tawes. Plea of guilty. Fine, $50 and costs. (F. & D. No. 15430.?
I. S. No. 7886-t.)
On December 23, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Mary??
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against James C.?
W. Tawes, Crisfield, Md., alleging shipment by said defendant, on or about?
May 19, 1921, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from the?
State of Maryland into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of canned crab?
meat which was misbranded.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed a shortage of 2.54 pounds in the 5 five-pound cans exam??
ined, an average shortage of 10.16 per cent from the declared weight.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that the statement, to wit, *' Contents 5 Lbs. Net," borne on the cans contain??
ing the said article, regarding the article, was false and misleading in that it?
represented that each of the said cans contained 5 pounds net of the article,?
and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive
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and mislead the purchaser into the belief that each of the said cans contained?
5 pounds net of the said article, whereas, in truth and in fact, each of the said?
cans did not contain 5 pounds net of the said article, but did contain a less?
amount. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the article was?
food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and?
conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On December 23, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
O. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.