10299.?Adulteration of scallops.    V. S.     *     *     *     v. 300 Gallons of Scallops
*     *      *.     Decree    entered    ordering:   the   release    of   the   product
wider bond.     (P. & D. No. 15865.    S. No. ?-3750.)
On December 27, 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 a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 300 gallons of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Baltimore, Md., consigned on or about December 12, 1921, alleging?
that the article had been shipped by Wallace M. Quinn, Morehead City, N. 0.,?
and transported from the State of North Carolina into the State of Maryland,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that water?
had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuri??
ously affect its quality and had been substituted wholly or in part for the said?
article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable con??
stituent of the said article, to wit, scallop solids, had been wholly or in part?
abstracted therefrom.
On February 7, 1922, the Wallace M. Quinn Co., Morehead City, N. C, claim??
ant, having admitted the material allegations of the libel, judgment of the?
court was entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant?
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a good and?
sufficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.