21355. Adulteration of  crab  meat.     U.S.  v.  2  Barrels   of   Crab  Meat.     De¬
fault   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.      (F.
& D. no. 30840.    Sample no. 43235-A.)
This case involved a shipment of crab meat which was contaminated with 
fecal B. coli, and was in part decomposed.
On July 13, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 2 barrels contain- 
ing two hundred and forty-eight 1-pound cans of crab meat at New York, 
N.Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on 
or about July 10, 1933, by the Bluff Point Co., from Philadelphia, Pa., and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On August 12, 1933, 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.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.