19224. Adulteration and Misbranding of scallops.    U. S. v. Emory J. Steel-
man.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.    Sentence  suspended.    (F.  & D.
No. 26571.    I. S. Nos. 9859, 15778, 15799.)
Samples of scallops from the shipments herein described having been found 
to contain excessive 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 for the district aforesaid an information against Emory J. 
Steelman, Townsend, Va., alleging shipments by said defendant in violation of 
the food and drugs act, in various consignments, on or about January 20, 1931, 
February 25, 1931, and February 26, 1931, from the State of Virginia, in part 
into the State of Maryland and in part into the State of Massachusetts, of 
quantities of scallops that were adulterated, and portions of which were also 
misbranded.   Portions of the article were labeled in part: " Scallops."
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, 
excessive water, 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 a valuable constituent of the article had been in part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged with respect to portions of the article for the reason 
that the statement, " Scallops," borne on tags attached to the cans containing 
the article, was false and misleading in that the said statement represented: 
that the article consisted wholly of scallops; and for the further reason that 
it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the 
belief that it consisted wholly of scallops, whereas it did not so consist but did 
consist in part of excessive water.
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.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.