27222. Adulteration of crab meat.    U. S. v. 1 Barrel and 1 Barrel of Grab Meat.
Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. nos. 39523, 
39527.    Sample nos. 22853-C, 22865-C.)
These cases involved crab meat that contained filth.
On April 17 and 20, 1937, the United States attorneys for the Southern Dis- 
trict of New York and the District of Maryland, acting upon reports by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district courts libels praying seizure and 
condemnation of one barrel of crab meat at New York, N. Y., and one barrel 
of crab meat at Baltimore, Md., alleging that it had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about April 14, 1937, by J. R. Middleton from Sebastian, Fla., 
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 April 29 and May 24, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.