28632. Adulteration of crab meat.    TJ. S. v. Oswald B. Meredith and Roland S.
Meredith (Meredith & Meredith).  Pleas of guilty.  Fines, $50 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 40766.    Sample Nos. 47070-C, 67380-C, 67471-C, 67474-C.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On February 2, 1938, 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 Oswald B. Meredith and Roland S. Meredith, co- 
partners, trading as Meredith & Meredith, at Wingate, Md., alleging that on 
or about August 10, 11, and 16, 1937, the defendants had shipped from Wingate. 
Md., into the State of Pennsylvania quantities of crab meat that was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Portions of the article were labeled 
in part: "Meredith & Meredith."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On March 1, 1938, a plea of guilty was "entered on behalf of each defendant, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25 on each defendant.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.