30134. Adulteration of  crab  meat.     U.   S.  v.   'William  H.  T.   Coulboume  and
Frederick  S. Jewett   (Coulboume  & Jewett).    Pleas  of guilty.     Fine. 
$100.    (F. & D. No. 42610.    Sample Nos. 34129-D, 34137-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On November 30, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against William H. T. Coulboume and Frederick S* 
Jewett, copartners, trading as Coulboume & Jewett, St. Michaels, Md., alleg-
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ing shipment by said defendants in violation of the Food and Drugs Act on 
or about June 29 and July 13, 1938, from the State of Maryland into the 
States of Delaware and New Jersey of quantities of crab meat that was 
adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole and in part 
of a filthy animal substance.
On January 20, 1939, the defendants entered pleas of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $200. On January 24, judgment was reconsidered and the 
fine was reduced to $100.
HABBT L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,