23097. Adulteration of crab meat.    U. S. v. 22 Cans of Crab Meat.    Consent
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 33337.    Sample 
no. 5552-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of crab meat which was found 
to contain filth.
On August 3, 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 22 cans of 
crab meat at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about July 30, 1934, by Wallace M. Quinn Co., from 
Crisfield, Md., 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 August 6, 1934, the consignee having consented to the destruction of 
the product, judgment was entered ordering that it be condemned and destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.