17227. Adulteration of scallops.    IT. S. -v. 25 Gallons of Scallops.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
24667. I. S. No. 028624. S. No. 2552.)
On November 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the Eastern 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 25 gallons of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Wallace M. Quinn Co., from New Bedford, Mass., on or about November 21,1929, 
and transported from the State of Massachusetts 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 substance, 
water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for scallops.
On March 26, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.