24952. Adulteration of shrimp.     XT. S. v. 1 Box of Shrimp.     Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 35551.    Sample no. 29063-B.)
This case involved a shipment of shrimp which was in part decomposed.
On May 6, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one box of shrimp at Boston, Mass., 
consigned on or about May 4, 1935, alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce by J. J. Hanson, Inc., from New York, N. Y., and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On July 1, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.