30725. Adulteration of frozen fish.    U. S. v. 24 Cartons of Perch Fillets.    Default
decree   of  condemnation.     Product   ordered  converted  into   fertilizer.
(F. & D. No. 45180.    Sample No. 54693-D.)
This product contained parasitic worms.
On April 15, 1939, 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 24 cartons of frozen perch 
fillets at Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about March 31, 1939, from New Bedford, Mass., by Atlantic 
Quick Freeze Co., Inc.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a 
filthy animal substance.
On June 9, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered converted into fertilizer.
HARBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.