24884. Adulteration of crab meat.     U.  S. v. Thirty-five 1-Pound Cans of Crab
Meat. Default decree of condemnation. (F. & D. no. 35781. Sample 
no. 27774-B.)
This case involved crab meat that was contaminated with filth and was in 
part decomposed.
On July 5, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court in the District of Columbia, holding a district court, a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of thirty-five 1-pound cans of crab meat at Wash- 
ington, D. C, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about July 3, 1935, by the Winstead-Bloxom-Jones Co., Inc., from 
Old Point Comfort, Va., 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 filthy animal substance.
On September 3, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be disposed of in such 
manner as would not violate the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.