19812. Alleged   Adulteration of   scallops.    U.   S.  v.  Arley  G.   Sterling  and
Wilson B. Sterling (A. G. Sterling Co.).     Tried to a Jury.     Verdict 
of not guilty.     (F. & D. No. 26656.    I. S. No. 20325.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of scallops, 
samples of which were found to contain a greater amount of .water than is 
normal to scallops.
On October 29, 1931, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an infor- 
mation against Arley G. Sterling and Wilson B. Sterling, copartners trading 
as the A. G. Sterling Co., Morehead City, N. C, alleging shipment by said 
defendants in violation of the food and drugs act on or about March 10, 1931, 
from the State of North Carolina into the State of New York, of quantities 
of scallops that were alleged to be adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
an added substance, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for 
the said article; and for the further reason that scallop solids, a valuable 
constituent of the article, had been, in part, abstracted.
On April 13, 1932, the case came on for trial before the court and a jury. 
After hearing the evidence introduced on behalf of the Government and the 
defendant, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty..
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.