30120. Adulteration of ocean perch fillets.    IT. S. v. 174 Boxes of Ocean Perch
Fillets.     Default decree  of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D.
No. 44113.    Sample No. 21293-D.)
This product was infested with parasitic worms.
On October 13, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 174 boxes of ocean perch fillets 
at Elgin, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about August 10, 1938, by Forty Fathom Fisheries, Inc., from Boston, 
Mass.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part, "Ocean Deep Frozen Fillets."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a 
filthy animal substance.
On November 29, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.