19207. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S. v. Ralph V. Bo-wen  (Ralph Bowen).
Plea of guilty.   Fine, ?50.    Sentence suspended.    (F. & D. No. 25733.
I. S. No. 20318.)
Samples of scallops from the shipment herein described having been found 
to contain added water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
On October 17, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States of the district aforesaid an information against Ralph V. 
Bowen, trading as Ralph Bowen, Broadwater, Va., alleging shipment by said 
defendant in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about January 29. 
1931, from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, of a quantity 
of scallops that were adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in the information in that an added substance, 
Śwater, had been mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part 
for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that 
scallop solids, a valuable constituent of the article, had been in part ab- 
stracted.
On November 16. 1931, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion and the court imposed a fine of $50, which fine was suspended for two 
years.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.