14692. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S. v. Speridon Stamates (Potomac Fish
& Oyster Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $20.     (F. & D. No. 19785.    I. S. 
No. 4900-x.)
On October 25, 1926, 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 Speridon Stamates, trading as 
the Potomac Fish & Oyster Co., Washington, D. C, alleging that on January 21, 
1926, the said defendant 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.
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 
in part for scallops, which the said article purported to be.
On October 25, 1926, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.