17876. Adulteration of oysters.    U. S. v. Fifty-five l-Gallon Cans of Oysters.
Default entered.    Product released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 25332. 
I. S. No. 5916.    S. No. 3601.)
Samples of oysters from the herein-described shipment having been found 
to contain excessive water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
On November 18, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of fifty-five 1-gallon cans of oysters, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Atlanta, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Fogg & Stowman, from Mauricetown, N. J., on or about November 8, 1930, and 
transported from the State of New Jersey into the State of Georgia, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower its 
quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for oysters, which the 
article purported to be.
On December 13,1930, no claim or answer having been entered and the allega- 
tions of the libel having been substantiated, default was noted. The property 
was delivered to the Community Kitchen, a charitable organization, Atlanta, 
Ga., upon the execution of a bond by J. R. Nix, in the sum of $10, conditioned 
that it would not be shipped in interstate commerce nor sold in violation of 
law.   The product was consumed in the charitable work of the organization.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.