19616. Adulteration of canned shrimp.     U. S. v. 40 Cases of Canned Shrimp.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 27221.    I. S. No; 45259.    S. No. 5396.)
Samples of canned shrimp from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On November 9, 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 40 cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Lone Star Fish & Oyster Co., Corpus Christi, Tex., on or about October 21, 1931 
(1930), and had been transported from the State of Texas into the State of 
Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Texas Star Brand Shrimp."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On February 16,1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.