25916. Adulteration of   crab  meat.     U.  S.  v.   Stanley  R.   Harrison,   James  L..
Harrison, and Wilson M. Jarboe, a partnership, trading: as Harrison & 
Jarboe Seafood Go.     Pleas of guilty.     Fine, $75 and costs.     (F. & D. no.
36965.    Sample nos. 42127-B, 42129-B, 42141-B.)
This case involved shipments of canned crab meat that consisted in part of a 
filthy substance due to pollution by fecal Bacillus coli.
On March 11, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against Stanley R. Harrison, James L. Harrison, and Wilson M. 
Jarboe, a partnership trading as the Harrison & Jarboe Seafood Co., at St. 
Michaels, Md., alleging that on or about August 15, August 19, and August 21, 
1935, the defendants had shipped from the State of Maryland into the State of 
Pennsylvania a number of cans of crab meat, and that the article was adul- 
terated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled: 
"Regular Net Weight 1 Lb."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of filthy 
substance due to pollution by and containing therein fecal B. coli.
On May 15,1936, pleas of guilty were entered on behalf of the defendants and 
the court imposed a fine of $75 and costs.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.