30597. Adulteration of whitefish roe.     U.  S. v. Three Cases and One Barrel ot
Whitefish Roe (and one similar seizure action). Default decrees of 
condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 45171, 45172, 45173, 45198. 
Sample Nos. 60603-D to 60606-D, inclusive.)
This product contained parasitic worms; a portion also contained fish scales 
and miscellaneous tissue.
On April n and 13, 1939, the United States attorneys for the Southern and 
the Eastern Districts of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in their respective district courts libels praying seizure and 
condemnation of three cases and one barrel of whitefish roe at New York, 
N. Y., and two boxes and one tub of fish roe at Brooklyn, N. Y., consigned in 
part by Stanley Johnson from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and in part by George Dent 
from Two Rivers, Wis.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce within the period from on or about March 13 to on or about April 
3, 1939; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The libels alleged adulteration with respect to a portion in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy animal substance, and with respect to the re- 
mainder, in that it consisted of portions of an animal unfit for food.
On May 3 and 17, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.