24911. Adulteration of  crab  meat.     TJ.   S.  v.  3  Barrels,   et  al.,   of  Crab  Meat.
Default decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 36186, 
36187, 36188, 36193, 36258. Sample nos. 39736-B, 39740-B, 39741-B, 39765-B, 
39915-B.)
These cases involved crab meat that contained filth.
On or about July 16, 1985, and on July 19, July 20, July 22, and August 2, 
1935, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, acting upon 
reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court libels praying 
seizure and condemnation of 11 barrels of crab meat at Baltimore, Md., charg- 
ing that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce between the dates 
of July 12 and July 30, 1935, consigned by W. G. Ruark & Co., of Belhaven, 
N. C, in part from Belhaven, N. C, and in part from Norfolk, 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 14 and August 26, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments 
of condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R GEBGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.