30304. Adulteration of lobster tails.   17. S. v. 23 Boxes of Lobster Tails.   Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 44763.    Sample 
Nos   8146-D, 8150-D.)
This product, which had been shipped in interstate commerce and remained 
unsold and in the original packages, at the time of examination was found to be 
in part decomposed.
On February 1, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 23 boxes of lobster 
tails at New York, N. Y., in possession of the International Lobster Co.; alleging 
that the article had been shipped on or about October 6, 1938, from Washington, 
D. C, by the Terminal Storage Warehouse; and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act This shipment represented goods previously 
sent to Washington and returned by the warehouse company. The article was 
labeled in part: "Fresh Frozen Lobster Tails, King Klip Brand * * * 
Packed by the Duikersklip Fisheries (Pty.), Limited, Cape Town, South Africa."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole or in part of 
a decomposed animal substance.
On March 6, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BEOWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.