27327. Adulteration of crab meat.     IT. S. v. 1 Barrel, 100 Pounds, and 158 Pounds 
of   Crab   Meat.     Default   decrees   of   condemnation   and   destruction.
(F. & D. nos. 39413, 39415, 39539.    Sample nos. 22839-C, 22854-C, 22891-C.)
These cases involved crab meat that, was filthy.
On April 14, 17, and 22, 1937, the United States attorneys for the Southern 
District of New York and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, acting upon 
reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in their respective district courts 
libels praying seizure and condemnation of one barrel, containing 126 pounds 
of crab meat, at New York, N. Y., and 258 pounds of crab meat at Philadelphia, 
Pa., alleging that it had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about April 
11, 14, and 20, 1937, by the Gulf Crest Fisheries from Jacksonville, Fla., 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 April 27 and May 17, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
H. A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.