14914.?Adulteration   of   scallops.     TJ     S.   v. Twenty-eight   1-Gallon   Cans   of
Scallops. Default decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod??
uct   ordered   delivered   to   charitable   institution   or   destroyed.
(F. & D. No. 21690.    I. S. No. 14901-x.    S. No. E-5977.)
On February 10, 1927, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in
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the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure?
and condemnation of twenty-eight 1-gallon cans of scallops, remaining in the?
original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had?
been shipped by N. F. Smith, from Cheriton, Va., on or about February 7, 1927,?
and transported from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that a sub??
stance, water, had been mixed with and substituted in part for scallops.
On February 26, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the portion of the product passed by this department as fit for?
human consumption be delivered to a charitable institution and the remainder?
destroyed.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.