S78I. Adulteration of canned slivinii). TT. ,*).*** v. 3S4 Cases of Cock??
tail   Brand   Sfarimp,     DefaaJt   decree   of   condemnation,   foi-feitnrc,
and destruction,     (V. & D. No. 12800.     J.  S. No. 14GGT-r.     S. No. K-2342.)
On June 9, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Penn??
sylvania, 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 184 cases of Cocktail Brand shrimp, remaining unsold in the
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original unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging thai the article had?
been shipped on or about December 4. 1919, by the Biloxi Fishermen's Packing?
Co., Biloxi, Miss., and transported from the State of Mississippi into the Slate?
of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration under the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged for the reason that it consisted in?
whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 30, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, it was?
ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.