30823. Adulteration of crab meat.    TT. S. v. 32 Pounds, 90 Pounds, and 8 Pound*
of Grab Meat.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F.
& D. Nos. 45538, 45541.   Sample Nos. 23794-D, 62437-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On June 22 and 23, 1939, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 130 pounds of crab meat at 
Baltimore, Md.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 19 and 20, 1939, by Biloxi Seafood Co. from Biloxi, 
Miss.; 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 14, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.