20896. Adulteration of frozen shrimp.    V. S. v. 452 Blocks and 212 Blocks of 
Frozen   Shrimp.    Default   decrees  of   condemnation   and   destruction.
(F. & D. nos. 38830, 38832.    Sample nos. 17536-C, 17538-C.)
This shrimp was wholly or in part decomposed.
On December 3, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 664 blocks, each 
containing 10 pounds of frozen shrimp at New York, K. Y., alleging that it had 
been shipped in interstate commerce in part on or about July 15, September 
26, and September 30, from J. R. Hardee, Fernandina, Fla., in part on or 
about September 28 and September 29, 1936, from A. A. Fagan, Thunderbolt, 
Ga., and in part on or about September 28, 1936, from the Colonial Shrimp Co., 
Southport, N. C., 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 decomposed animal substances.
On December 17, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgments of con- 
demnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.