31015. Adulteration of frozen crab meat. U. S. v. 3 Boxes of Frozen Crab 
Meat.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
45518.     Sample No. 43799-D.)
This product had been shipped in interstate commerce and remained unsold 
and in the original packages. At the time of examination it was found to be 
in part decomposed.
On June 22, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 3 boxes, containing 
a total of seventy eight 5-pound cans of frozen crab meat, at San Francisco, 
Calif.; alleging that the article had been shipped by G. A. Williams from North 
Bend, Oreg., to Los Angeles, Calif., on or about July 16, 1938, and had been 
reshipped from Los Angeles to San Francisco on or about July 23, 1938; and 
charging that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted wholly or in part of a 
decomposed animal substance.
On November 30, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
GBOVEB B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.