16516.  Adulteration of scallops.     XJ.  S. v.  Gordon E. Milbourne and Wood- 
land   Milbourne   (Milbourne   Oyster   Co.).    Pleas   of   cruilty.     Fine,
$25.     (F. & D. No. 21604.     I. S. No. 7750-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 
Gordon E Milbourne and Woodland Milbourne, copartners, trading as the 
Milbourne Oyster Co., Wachapreague, Va., alleging shipment by said defendants, 
in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about February 22, 1927, from 
the State of Virginia into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity 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 
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for scallops, which the 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 abstracted in part therefrom.
On November 7, 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.