80827. Adulteration of frozen fish. U. S. v. 127 Boxes of Perch Fillets (and 4 
other seizure actions against similar products). Default decrees of 
condemnation. Certain lots ordered destroyed; remainder ordered con- 
verted into fertilizer. (F. & D. Nos. 44841, 44843, 44844, 44942, 45221. 
Sample Nos. 51429-D, 53058-D, 53059-D, 54315-D, 54343-D.)
These products had been shipped in interstate commerce and remained un- 
sold and in the original packages. At the time of examination certain lots 
were found to be in part decomposed; others contained parasitic worms.
On various dates between February 17 and April 21, 1939, the United States 
attorneys for the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of Iowa, 
the Northern District of Iowa, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, acting 
upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in their respective district 
courts libels praying seizure and condemnation of 127 boxes of red perch 
fillets and 35 boxes of whiting at Chicago, Ill., 238 boxes of ocean perch at 
Davenport, Iowa, 100 boxes of red perch fillets at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and 
960 boxes of skinless fillets at Philadelphia, Pa.; alleging that the articles 
had been shipped within the period from on or about January 28, 1939, to 
on or about April 17, 1939, in part from Gloucester, Mass., and in part from 
Cleveland, Ohio, by Slade Gorton Co.; and charging adulteration in-violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The articles were labeled in part x "Ocean 
Perch," "Cape Ann H and G Trap Whiting," "Red Perch Fillets," and ''Frozen 
Icybay Skinless Cape Blue Fillets."
Portions were alleged to be adulterated in that they consisted wholly or in 
part of decomposed animal substances, others in that they consisted wholly 
or in part of filthy animal substances.
On March 27, April 24, and May 25 and 29, 1939, no claimant having ap- 
peared, judgments of condemnation were entered and the lots seized at Chicago, 
111., were ordered converted into fertilizer and the remaining lots were ordered 
destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.