23133. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. 1 Barrel of Crab Meat.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 33465. Sample 
no. 13977-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of crab meat which was found 
to contain filth.
On August 23, 1934, 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 one barrel of crab meat at Balti- 
more, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on 
or about August 20, 1934, by J. H. Fleming & Co., from Portsmouth, 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 September 23, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.