12830. Adulteration  and  misbranding  of  scallops.     U.  S. v. Eacho   &  Co.,
a Corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $30.     (P. & D. No. 19234.    I. S. 
No.  15080-v.)
On November 11, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police 
Court of the District aforesaid an information against Eacho & Co., a corpora- 
tion, trading at Washington, D. C, alleging that on March 13, 1924, the said 
company did offer for sale and sell in the District of Columbia, in violation of 
the food and drugs act, a quantity of scallops which were adulterated and 
misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained added water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel 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 strength and had been substi- 
tuted in part for scallops, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
and sold under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, scallops.
On November 11, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $30.
W. M. JABMNE, Secretary of Agriculture.