18132. Adulteration of scallops.    IT.  S. v. 27 Gallons  of  Scallops.    Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 26402.    I. S. No. 15781.    S. No. 4113.)
Samples of scallops from the shipment herein described having been found 
to contain added water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On January 27, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 27 gallons of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Boston, Mass., consigned about January 23, 1931, alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Cape Charles Seafood Co., Oyster, Va., and 
had been transported from the State of Virginia into the State of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 therewith so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in 
part for the said article.
On February 5,1931, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.