X4917. Adulteration of scallops. U. S. v. Ten 1-Gallon Cans of Scallops,?
et al. Default decrees of condemnation, and forfeiture. Product?
ordered delivered to charitable institution or destroyed.     (F. & D.
Nos. 21687, 21689.    I. S. Nos. 14905-x, 16025-x.    S. Nos. E-5976, E-5981.)
On February 10 and 14, 1927, respectively, the United States attorney for?
the Southern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of?
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district?
libels praying seizure and condemnation of twenty-four 1-gallon cans of scal??
lops, remaining in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging?
that the article had been shipped by G. W. McCready, from Cheriton, Va., in?
part on or about February 7, 1927, and in part on or about February 8, 1927,?
and transported from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated, in that a sub??
stance, water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for?
scallops.
On February 26, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by?
the court that the portion of the product passed by this department as fit for?
human consumption be delivered to a charitable institution, and the remainder
destroyed.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.