17117. Adulteration of  scallops.    XT.   S.  v.   3  Barrels   of   Scallops.    Default
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product delivered to 
charitable institution.' (F. & D. No. 24624. I. S. No. 028896. S. No. 
2884.)
On February 18, 1930, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 3 barrels of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the R. E. Dean Co., Cambridge, Md., on or about February 15, 1930, and 
transported from the State of Maryland into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for 
scallops.
On March 3, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the portion of the product fit for human consumption be delivered to 
a charitable institution and the unfit portion, if any, destroyed.
ABTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agricultwe.