80680. Adulteration of crab meat.    IT. S. -v. 1,095 Pounds of Crab Meat.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 45503.   Sample No. 
62780-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On June 8, 1939, 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 695 pounds of straight picked 
crab meat and 400 pounds of claw crab meat at Baltimore, Md.; alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about June 5, 1939, 
from Harvey, La., by Ed Martin Sea Food Co.; 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 June 30, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.