14077. Ailulterution   of   canned   shrimp.     V.   S.   v.   24%    Cases   of   Pnnn.A
Shrimp.      Default     decree     of     condemnation,     forfeiture     ^fj 
destruction.      (F. & D. No. 20723.     I.  S. No.  5457-x.     S. No.  ^5555. 
On December 18, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed In 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 24% cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Worcester, Mass., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Houma Packing Co., Inc., Houma, La., and transported 
from the State of Louisiana into the State of Massachusetts, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On February 2, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.