17130. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S. v. 1 Barrel of Scallops.    Default de 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product delivered to char- 
itable institution.    ^F. & D. No. 24635.    I. S. No. 027604.    S. No. 2896.)
On February 19, 1930, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 1 barrel of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by Tawes 
& Co., Oyster, Va., on or about February 18, 1930, 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 and packed with and substituted in part for 
scallops.
On March 6, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the portion of the product fit for human consumption be delivered to a 
charitable institution, and the unfit portion, if any, destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
AETHTJR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.