28385. Adulteration of crab meat.    U. S. v. Thirty-Two 1-Pound Cans of Crab
Meat (and 2 similar seizure actions). Default decrees of condemnation 
and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 43308, 43372, 43388. Sample Nos. 34158-D, 
34266-D, 34276-D.)
This product contained evidence of the presence of filth.
On August 5, 12, and 19, 1938, the United States attorneys for the District 
of New Jersey, the Southern District of New York, and the District of Colum- 
bia, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in their respective 
district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of one barrel of crab 
meat at Wildwood, N. J., 23 pound cans of crab meat at New York, N. Y., and 
32 pound cans of crab meat at Washington, D. C.; alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 3, 10, and 16, 
1938, by the Star Oyster Co. from Crisfield, Md.; 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 September 7, 9, and 26, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgments 
of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.