23072.  Adulteration of crab meat.    U. S. v. 2 Barrels and 1 Barrel of Crab 
Meat.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D.
nos. 33202, 33495.    Sample nos. 6655-B, 16622-B.)
These cases involved interstate shipments of crab meat that was found to 
contain filth.
On July 19 and September 4, 1934, the United States attorney for the South- 
ern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of three 
barrels of crab meat at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about July 16 and August 29, 1934, by 
E. L. Watkins, from Hampton, Va., and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On August 9 and September 20, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgments 
of condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be 
destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.