24887. Adulteration of crab meat.     V. S. v. Forty-five 1-Pound Cans and Forty-
seven 1-Pound Cans of Crab Meat.     Default decrees of condemnation 
and destruction.    (F. & D. nos. 35807, 36192.    Sample nos. 39732-B, 39912-B.)
These cases involved crab meat that contained filth.
On July 12, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, holding a district court, a Libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of forty-five 1-pound cans of crab meat at Washington, D. C. On 
July 18, 1935, a libel was filed against forty-seven 1-pound cans of crab meat at 
Philadelphia, Pa. The libels charged that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce in part on or about July 9, 1935, and In part on or about July 
16, 1935, by G. T. Elliott, Inc., from Hampton, Va., and that it was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On August 16 and September 3, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments 
of condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R GKEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.