29218. Adulteration of crab meat.     V. S. v. 397, 135, and 65 Pounds of Crab Meat.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 43004. 
Sample No. 23778-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On June 24, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 597 pounds of crab meat at Balti- 
more, Md.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about June 21, 1938, by Paul Zibilich Co., Inc., from New Orleans, La.; 
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 July 30, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.