12278. Adulteration   of   scallops.     U.   S.   v.   Duffy   Wade.     Plea   of   guilty 
Judgment that defendant pay costs. (F. & I>. No. 14997. I. S. No. 
6634-t)
On November 24, 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 Duffy Wade, trading at Morehead City, N. C, alleging shipment by 
said defendant in violation of the food and drugs act on or about March 17~ 
1921, from the State of North Carolina into the State of New York of a 
quantity of scallops which were adulterated.
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
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 substi- 
tuted in part for scallops, which the said article purported to be. Adultera- 
tion was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the 
article, to wit, scallop solids, had been in part abstracted.
On April 27, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,, 
and upon the finding by the court that the defendant did not knowingly 
adulterate the product and that the product was purchased by the defendant 
in an adulterated condition, judgment was entered by the court that the 
defendant pay the costs of the proceedings.
HOWABD M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.