20145. Adulteration of    canned    shrimp.    U.S.   v.    396    Cases    of    Canned
Shrimp.    Portion   of   product   released.    Remainder   condemned 
and  destroyed.     (P.  &  D.   No.   27653.    I.S.  No.  32020.     S.  No.   5701.)
This case involved the shipment of a quantity of canned shrimp, samples 
of which were found to be decomposed.
On January 11, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 396 cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 26, 1931, by s 
Dorgan McPhillips Packing Corporation, from Mobile, Ala., to San Francisco,' 
Calif., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: (Can) "Gulf Kist Brand Fancy Medium Shrimp 
*    *   *   Packed by Dorgan McPhillips Packing Corp. Mobile, Ala."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On August 3, 1932, the court entered a decree ordering that 242 cases of 
the product be released to the claimant, the Kelley-Clarke Co., San Francisco, 
Calif., and that the remaining 154 cases be condemned and destroyed.
R. G. TuGWEii, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.