3059. Adulteration of crab meat.   U. S. v. William E. Thompson (W. E. Thompson
Oyster Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 j fine remitted.    (F. D. C. No. 2926. 
Sample Nos. 9784-E, 35236-E.)
On March 8, 1941, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Alabama filed an information against William B. Thompson, trading as W. E. 
Thompson Oyster Co., at Theodore, Ala., alleging that on or about June 12, 1940, 
the 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 F'ood, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act; that on June 22 and July 17, 1940, the defendant sold and 
delivered to Star Fish & Oyster Co., Inc., a quantity of crab meat; and that 
said crab meat was delivered by the purchaser for introduction in interstate 
commerce, from the State of Alabama into the States of Maryland and Virginia.
The information charged further that the defendant, in violation of raid act, 
had given a guaranty which was false since the crab meat was adulterated In 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance; 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.