21611.     Adulteration of   crab   meat.      V.   S.   v.   170   Pounds   of   Crab   Meat. 
Default   decree   of   condemnation,    forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 31108.    Sample no. 44127-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of crab meat that was found to 
contain filth and to be in part decomposed.
On September 2, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 170 pounds of crab meat at Balti- 
more, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about August 30, 1933, by G. N. Baker & Co., from Belhaven, N.C., 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 consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On November 6, 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.