7337. Adulteration of scallops.   U. S.   *   *   *   v. 15 Gallons of Scallops.   Default decree of
condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered disposed of for fertilizer or other 
similar manufacturing purposes.   (F. & D. No. 10001.   I. S. No. 13842-r.   S. No. E-1264.)
On March 13, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New 
York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 15 
gallons of scallops, at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on 
March 5, 1919, by Finer Brothers, Morehead City, N. C, and transported from the 
State of North Carolina into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel im* the reason that a substance, 
to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with, and s. ^fcituted in part for, scallops, 
which the article purported to be.
On April 3, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
should be destroyed by the United States marshal, but that if said merchandise could 
be disposed of for fertilizer or other similar manufacturing purposes, other than for 
human or animal consumption, then it might be disposed of in such manner as might
be found practicable.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.