27203. Adulteration of frozen  whitings.     U. S. v. 225  Cases and 120 Cases of
Frozen, Headless, and Dressed Whitings. Consent decree of condem- 
nation and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 39277, 39278. Sample nos. 41421-C, 
41422-C.)
This case involved a shipment of fish that was in part decomposed.
On March 25, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 345 cases of frozen whitings at 
Topeka, Kans., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about February 21, 1937, by Slade Gorton Co., from Chicago, Ill., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of 
a decomposed animal substance.
On April 21, 1937, Slade Gorton Co. having appeared as claimant, a consent 
decree of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the product be 
destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.