18134. Adulteration of scallops.    IT. S. v.  11 Gallons of Scallops.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
26397.    I. S. No. 15778.    S. No. 4074.)
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 23, 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 11 gallons of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Boston, Mass., consigned about January 20, 1931, alleging that the 
article had been shipped by E. J. Steelman, Bay View, Va., and had been trans- 
ported from the State of Virginia into the State of Massachusetts, 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. 
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On February 11, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.