3058. Adulteration of crab meat.    V. S. v. Clarence Sprinkle   (Sprinkle Seafood
Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $25j fine remitted. (F. D. C. No. 2920. Sample 
No. 35221-E.)
Examination Of this product showed that a portion contained Escherichia coli.
On March 8, 1941, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Alabama filed an information against Clarence Sprinkle, trading as Sprinkle 
Seafood Co. at Bayou La Batre, Ala., alleging that on or about June 21, 1940, 
tho defendant gave to the Star Fish & Oyster Co., Inc., Mobile Ala., a guaranty 
that all crab meat furnished by the defendant to said company would be 
neither misbranded nor adulterated within the meaning of the Federal Food, 
Drug and Cosmetic Act; that on June 21, 1940, the defendant sold and delivered 
to the Star Fish & Oyster Co., Inc., a'quantity of crab meat; and that said 
crab meat was delivered for introduction in interstate commerce by the pur- 
chaser from the State of Alabama into the State of Maryland.
The information charged further that the" defendant had given a guaranty 
which was false, in violation of said act,, in that the crab meat so sold and
delivered was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy sub- 
stance; and in that it had been prepared under insanitary. conditions whereby 
it might have become contaminated with filth.
On February 11, 1942. the defendant having entered a plea of" guilty, the Court 
imposed a fine of $25, which was remitted.