31049. Adulteration of canned oysters.    U. S. v. 221 Cases ot Canned Oysters.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 44552. 
Sample No. 37058-D.)
This product was in whole or in part decomposed.
On December 20, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by, the Secretary of Agriculture, filed a libel 
against 221 cases of canned oysters at San Francisco, Calif.; alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about November 8, 1938, 
by the Anticich Canning Co. from New Orleans, La,; and charging that it was 
adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act It was labeled in parti 
"American Beauty Oysters."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted wholly or in part of 
a decomposed animal substance.
On June 1, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
GROVER B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.