26099. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. 296 Tins and 116 Tins of Crab Meat.
Consent decree of forfeiture and destruction.    (P. & D. no. 37753.    Sample 
nos. 64228-B, 64231-B.)
This case involved a shipment of crab meat that contained fecal Bacillus coli.
On May 19, 1936, 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 412 tins of crab meat 
at Savannah, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about May 14, 1936, by J. S. Graves, from Bluffton, S. C, and 
charging adulteration 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 May 22, 1936, L. P. Maggioni & Co., Savannah, Ga., having appeared and 
claimed ownership and having consented to the destruction of the product, 
judgment was entered ordering that it be forfeited and destroyed.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.