24468. Adulteration of frozen shrimp. V. S. v. 645 Blocks of Frozen Shrimp. 
Consent decree of condemnation. Product released under bond con- 
ditioned that decomposed portion be destroyed or denatured.     (F. & D.
no. 35327.    Sample no. 21669-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of frozen shrimp which was in 
part decomposed.
On March 12, 1935, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of five hundred forty- 
five 10-pound blocks of frozen shrimp at New York, N. Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 19, 1934, 
by the Imperial Fish Co., from Baltimore, Md., and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a decomposed substance.
On April 1, 1935, the Imperial Fish Co., New York, N. Y., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the 
product be released under bond conditioned that the decomposed portion be 
destroyed or denatured.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.