17664. Adulteration of  canned  shrimp.     TJ.  S. v.  22  Cases  of   Canned  Shrimp.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 24905.    I. S. No. 023796.    S. No. 3236.)
Samples of canned shrimp from the herein described interstate shipment 
having been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Colorado.
On July 9, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 22 cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Denver, Colo., consigned by the J. F. Conrad Grocery Co., St. Louis, 
Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped from St. Louis, Mo., on or about 
June 2, 1930, and had been transported from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Colorado, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. The article was labeled in part: (Cases and cans) "Texas Star Brand 
Shrimp Packed By Lone Star Fish & Oyster Co. Corpus Christi, Texas;" (cases 
further labeled) " J. F. Conrad Grocery Co.,   *    *    *    St. Louis, Mo."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On August 19, 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.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.