26403. Adulteration of  crab meat.    U.  S.  v.  1 Barrel of  Crab Meat.    Default
decree  of  condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D. no.  88106.    Sample 
no. 6744-C.)
This case involved crab meat that contained filth.
On July 30, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one barrel of crab meat at Wash- 
ington, D. C, alleging that the article had been shipped in Interstate com- 
merce on or about July 27, 1936, by John Illich, from Biloxi, Miss., and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or In 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On September 30, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.