4621. Adulteration of crab meat.    IT. S. v. Gordon L. Lewis (G. L. Lewis Crabmeat
Plant). Plea of nolo contendere. Fine, $100 on first count. Sentence 
suspended on second and third counts. Defendant placed on probation 
for 2 years.    (F. D. C. No. 7739.   Sample Nos. 70865-E, 82615-H, 82625-E.)
On November 23, 1942, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida filed an information against Gordon L. Lewis, Jacksonville, Fla., alleg- 
ing shipment in interstate commerce within the period from on or about May 14, 
to June 24, 1942, from the State of Florida into the States of New York and 
Maryland of quantities of crab meat that was adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of fecal pollution.
On February 15, 1943, the defendant having entered a plea of nolo contendere, 
the court imposed a fine of $100 on the first count. Imposition of the sentence was 
suspended on the second and third counts and defendant was placed on proba- 
tion for 2 years on condition that the officers comply with reasonable sanitary 
regulations.