10476. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S.     *      *      *     v. Milton S. Lee (M. S. Lee
& Co.).    Plea of guilty.     Fine, SIO and  costs.     (F.  & D.  No.   15260. 
I. S. Nos. 6568-t, 6573-t, 6633-t, 6636-t.)
On November 4, 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 Milton S. Lee, trading as M. S. Lee & Co., Morehead City, N. C., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about March 15, 16, 17, and 19, 1921, from the State of North 
Carolina into the State of New York, of quantities of an article of food, to 
wit, scallops, which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment 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 reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and had been sub- 
stituted in part for scallops, which the article purported to be, and for the 
further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, scallop 
solids, had been in part abstracted.
On April 25, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and on April 27, 1922, the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.