17807. Adulteration of scallops.    V. S. v. Wallace M.  Quinn  (The "Wallace
M. Quinn Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, JBl.OOO. (F. & D. No. 25014. 
I.  S.  Nos.  02400,  028583,  028622,  028624,  028653,  028654.)
Samples of scallops from the herein-described interstate shipments having 
been found to contain added water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On October 10, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against Wallace 
M. Quinn, trading as the Wallace M. Quinn Co., New Bedford, Mass., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or 
about November 7 and November 20, 1929, from the State of Massachusetts 
into the State of New York, and on or about November 22, 1929, from the 
State of Massachusetts into the State of South Carolina, of quantities of 
scallops which were adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
added water had been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength ; in that added water had been
substituted in part for scallops which the article purported to be;  and in , 
that scallop solids, a valuable constituent of the article, had been in part 
flbstrRctcd.
On November 10, 1930, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $1,000.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.