22552. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. 13 Cans of Crab Meat.     Default
decee of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. now
33185.    Sample no. 5546-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of crab meat which was found to- 
be polluted.
On July 30, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 cans of 
crab meat at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about July 25, 1934, by N. R. Coulbourn from Hamp- 
ton, Va., 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, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On July 31, 1934, 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.