12943. Adulteration and misbranding of scallops. V. S. v. John F. Javins 
and Francis H. Javins (Cbas. H. Javins ?fc Son). Pleas of guilty. 
Fine, $30.     (F. & IX No. 19235.    I. S. Nos. 15074-v, 15078-v.)
On December 8, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court 
of the district aforesaid an information against John F. Javins and Francis H. 
Javins, trading as Chas. H. Javins & Sons, Washington, D. C, alleging that on 
March 12 and 13, 1924, respectively, the said defendants did offer for sale and 
sell in the District of Columbia, in violation of the food and drugs act, quanti- 
ties of scallops which were adulterated and misbranded.
Examination of a sample 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 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted in part for 
scallops, which the said 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 December 8. 1924, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.