19214. Adulteration of  scallops.    U.   S.  v.   Ufford  W.   Hine.    Plea   of  guilty.
Fine, $100.    Sentence suspended.     (F. & D. No. 26583.    I. S. Nos. 28957, 
28969.)
Samples of scallops from the shipments herein described having been found to 
contain excessive water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
On October 17, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States of the district aforesaid an information against Ufford W. 
Hine, Cape Charles, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of 
the food and drugs act, in part on or about February 28, 1931, and in part on
or about March 4, 1931, from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, 
if quantities of scallops that were adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, 
excessive water, had been mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce 
and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been sub- 
stituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that scallop solids, a valuable constituent of the article, had been in part 
abstracted.
On November 16, 1931, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion and the court imposed a fine of $100, which fine was suspended for two 
years.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.