22923. Adulteration of  canned  sardines.     U.   S.  v.  199  Cases   of  Sardines.
Default decree of destruction. (F. & D. no. 33017. Sample no. 
49177-A.)
This case involved a shipment of canned sardines that were under processed 
and undergoing active decomposition.
On or about July 2, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 199 cases of 
canned sardines at Vidalia, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about September 2, 1933, by Wass & Stinson Canning 
Co., from Prospect Harbor, Maine, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part? "Beach Cliff Brand 
Maine Sardines * * * Packed by Wass & Stinson Canning Co., Prospect 
Harbor, Maine."
It was alleged that the article was adulterated in that it consisted in whole 
or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On July 30, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment was entered order- 
ing destruction of the product.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.