10472. Adulteration of    scallops.      V.    S.     *     *     *     v.    Wallace    M.    Q,ninn
(Wallace   M.   Q,ninn   Co.).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $10   and   costs.
(F. & D. No. 13944. I. S. Nos. 12597-r, 13225-r, 13486-r. 15222-r, 15960-r. 
15991-r, 16517-r, 16700-r, 16754-r, 218-r, 210-r, 201-r, 207-r, 212-r, 217-r.)
On May 18, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Wallace M. Quinn, trading as the Wallace M. Quinn Co., Morehead City, N. C, 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about March 10, 1920, from the State of North Carolina into the State 
of Ohio, on or about March 11, 1920, from the State of North Carolina into 
the State of Michigan, on or about March 11 and 2, 1920, from the State of 
North Carolina into the State of New York, on or about March 11, 1920, from 
the State of North Carolina into the State of Connecticut, on or about 
March 12, 1920, from the State of North Carolina into the State of Mis- 
souri, on or about March 12, 1920, from the State of North Carolina into 
the State of Minnesota, on or about March 6 and 1, 1920, from the State of 
North Carolina into the State of Massachusetts, on or about March 4, January 
17, and March 6, 1920, from the State of North Carolina into the State of 
Pennsylvania, on or about January 9, 1920, from the State of North Carolina 
into the State of Virginia, and on or about March 27 and 6, 1920, from the 
State of North Carolina into the State of Maryland, of quantities of an article 
of food, to wit, scallops, which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Cherrr'stry of this 
department showed the presence of 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 
m part for scallops, which the article purported to be.
On March 29, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretory of Agriculture.