29803. Adulteration of canned clams.     U. S. v. William Palmer Hart and Frank
JT. Brown (Brown & Hart Packing Co.).    Pleas of guilty.    Fines, $100.
(F.   &   D.   No.   42553.    Sample   Nos.   964-D,    14080-D,   14118-D,   14119-D, 
14133-D.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On October 14, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Maine, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against William Palmer Hart and Frank N. Brown, trading as 
Brown & Hart Packing Co., Millbridge, Maine, alleging shipment by said de- 
fendants in violation of the Food and Drugs Act in the period from on or about 
October 29, 1937 to on or about December 16, 1937, from the State of Maine into 
the States of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, of quantities 
of canned clams which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
"B. & H. Brand   *    *   *   Fancy Clams"
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in part of a decomposed 
substance, namely, partly decomposed clams.
On November 1, 1938, the defendants entered pleas of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $50 against each.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.