29217. Adulteration of crab meat.    U. S. v. 172 Pounds and 72 Pounds of Crab
Meat.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
43005.    Sample No. 23858-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On June 24, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 244 pounds of crab meat at Balti- 
more, Md.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about June 21, 193S, by C. F. Gollott Seafood Co. from Biloxi, Miss.; 
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 July 30, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HABBT ]j. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,