26253. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. One Barrel and One Barrel of Crab
Meat.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. nos, 
37781, 37790.    Sample nos. 53231-B, 53247-B.)
These cases involved shipments of crab meat that contained fecal Bacillua 
coll.
On May 5 and May 12, 1936, the United States attorneys for the District 
of Maryland and the Southern District of New York, acting upon reports by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district courts libels praying seizure 
and condemnation of one barrel of crab meat at Baltimore, Md., and one barrel 
of crab meat at New York, N. Y., consigned by W. G. Buark, alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 2 and May 6, 
1936, from Port Royal, S. C, and charging adulteration 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 June 3 and June 10, 1936, no claimants having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.