17118. Adulteration of   scallops.    V.   S.   v.   1   Barrel,   et   al.,   of   Scallops.
Default decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product de- 
livered to charitable institutions. (F. & D. Nos. 24633, 24634. I. S. 
Nos. 027602, 027603.    S. Nos. 2894, 2895.)
On February 19, 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 3 barrels containing sixty 1-gallon cans of scallops, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by H. S. Riggin & Son, Exmore, Va., in two lots,
on or about February 17 and February 18, 1930, respectively, and transported 
from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, and charging adultera- 
tion 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 March 6, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.