17116. Adulteration of   scallops.    IT.   S.   v.   1   Barrel,   et   al.,   of   Scallops.
Default decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product de- 
livered to charitable institutions. (F. &. D. Nos. 24622, 24623. I. S. 
Nos. 028890, 028895.    S. Nos. 2860, 2861.)
On February 14, 1930, 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 2 barrels containing 44 gallon cans of scallops, remaining 
in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by A. L. Charnock, Willis Wharf, Va., on or about February 
13, 1930, 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 
substance, water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part 
for scallops.
On February 28, 1930, 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 fit for human consumption be 
delivered to charitable institutions, and the remainder, if any, destroyed.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.