28090. Adulteration of canned shrimp.    U. S. v. 23 Cases of Shrimp.   Default de¬
cree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 38716. Sample No. 
17390-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On November 25, 1936, the United States attorney for the Middle District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 23 cases of 
canned shrimp at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about September 15, 1936, from Bayou Labatre, 
Ala., by the Deer Island Fish & Oyster Co., and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Gulf's Best 
Brand Shrimp Wet Pack. * * * Packed by Deer Island Fish & Oyster Co., 
Bayou Labatre, Ala., and Biloxi, Miss."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed animal substance.
On October 25, 1937, the sole intervenor, the Deer Island Fish & Oyster Co., 
having withdrawn its appearance, judgment of condemnation was entered and 
the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.