5256. Adulteration of oysters. V. S. * * * v. Iioncitty Havens, "William. 
I>. Havens, and Charles E. Havens (X.. etc W. D. Havens).
' Pleas of 
nolo contendere. Fine, $30. (F. & D. No. 7669. I. S. Nos. 2434-1, 
2435-1.)
On January 24, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Rhode 
Island, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Loucitty Havens, William D. Havens, and Charles E. Havens, trading as L. & 
W. D. Havens, Longmeadow, R. I., alleging shipment by said defendants, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about February 24, 1916, from the 
State of Rhode Island into the State of Massachusetts, of quantities of oysters 
which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article from each of the 2 shipments by the 
Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed the following results:
No. 1. No. 2.
Liquor (percent) 
10.02 9.75
Meat  (per cent) 
89.98 90.25
Sodium chlorid in liquor (percent) 
0.18             0.27
Total solids in meat (per cent) 
13.92 13.88
Ash in meat (per cent) 
0. 74 0.82
Sodium chlorid in meat (per cent) 
0.03             0.14
Loss on boiling (per cent) 
55.0 55.6
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a certain substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith 
so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted in whole or in part for oysters, which the article purported 
to be.
On January 29, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of nolo contendere to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $30.
R. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
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