24919. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. 1 Box, et al., of Crab Meat.     Default
decrees of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. nos. 36265, 36266, 
36417.    Sample nos. 43269-B, 43273-B, 43275-B.)
These cases involved crab meat that contained filth.
On July 24, 26, and 27, 1935, 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 libels praying seizure and condemnation of three 
boxes and one barrel of crab meat at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce in various shipments on or about 
July 20, 23, and 24, 1935, by the Lupton Fish & Oyster Co., from New Bern, 
N. C, and that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On September 11, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
"W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.