24615. Adulteration of frozen shrimp.     U. S. v. 4,410 Pounds of Frozen Shrimp.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 35323. 
Sample no. 21670-B.)
This case involved frozen shrimp which was wholly or in part decomposed.
On March 21, 1934, 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 4,410 pounds of 
frozen shrimp at New York, N. Y., alleging1 that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about December 18, 1933, by the Joe Mendes 
Shrimp Co., from Brunswick, Ga., 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 animal substance.
On April 25, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed. v
W. R. GHEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.