15506. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S. v. Lee N. Johnson, John H.  Lewis,
Harvey I. Lewis, and George U. Lewis  (J. Lewis  & Co.).     Pleas of 
g-uilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 21601.    I. S. Nos. 16018-x, 16019-X.)
On October 25, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Lee N. Johnson, John H. Lewis, Harvey I. Lewis, and George U. Lewis, copart- 
ners, trading as J. Lewis & Co., Onancock, Va., alleging shipment by said 
defendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, in two consignments, on or 
about January 26 and February 3, 1927, respectively, from the State of Vir- 
ginia into the State of New York, of quantities of scallops which were 
adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that 
a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower, 
reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and had been substituted in part for 
scallops, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged lor 
the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, scallop 
solids, had been in part abstracted.
On November 16, 1927, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.