13964. Adulteration   of   canned   shrimp.     IT.   S.   v.   24%    Cases,   et   al.,   ot
Canned Shrimp. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture) 
and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 20668, 20669. I. S. Nos. 5452-x. 5453-x 
S. Nos. E-5595, E-5596.)
On November 30, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 49 cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Houma Packing Co., Inc., from Houma, La., October 27, 1925, and 
transported from the State of Louisiana into the State of Massachusetts, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) "Ho-Ma Brand Shrimp Packed By Houma Pack- 
ing Co. Houma, La. Wet Pack."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On December 19, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg' 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, ^.nd it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.