20757. Adulteration of  oysters.   U.  S.  v. "Walter V.  Wentworth   and  Ray¬
mond T. Wentworth (O. E. Wentworth & Co.). Plea of guilty. 
Fine, $30 and costs. (F. & D. no. 29419'. I. S. nos. 50046, 50831, 
52122.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of oysters that contained 
excessive water.
On March 13, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States an information against Walter V. Wentworth and 
Raymond T. Wentworth, copartners, trading as O. E. Wentworth & Co., Balti- 
more, Md., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on or about February 17, 1932, from the State of Maryland into 
the States of Ohio and Michigan, of quantities of oysters that were adulterated. 
The article was labeled in part: "Oysters * * * Packed by O. E. Went- 
worth & Co., Baltimore, Md."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
excessive water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and 
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted 
in part for oysters, which the article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, oyster solids, 
had been in part abstracted.
On March 14, 1933, defendant Walter V. Wentworth appeared and entered 
a plea of guilty to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $30 and | 
costs.
R. G. TTJGWEEX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.