27018. Adulteration of canned shrimp.     IT.   S. v.   170  Cases   of Canned  Shrimp.
Default decree  of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D. no. 39035. 
Sample no. 26624-C.)
This case involved a shipment of canned shrimp that was in part decom- 
posed.
On February 4, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 170 cases of 
canned shrimp at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about January 14, 1937, by the Lowden Corpora- 
tion, from Savannah, Ga., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. It was labeled in part: "Forest City Brand Wet Pack 
Shrimp    *    *    *    The Lowden Corp., Distributors Savannah, Ga. U. S. A."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On February 23, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.