31075. Adulteration of frozen shrimp.    U. S. v. 200 Cases of Frozen Shrimp (and
1 other seizure action against frozen shrimp). Consent decrees entered. 
Product released under bond for segregation of fit from unfit portion. 
Unfit portion condemned and disposed of for purposes other than food. 
Good portion released. (F. & D. Nos. 44756, 44780. Sample Nos. 36777-D, 
36779-D, 43239-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 January 4 and 18, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of California, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 346 cases 
of frozen shrimp at San Francisco, Calif.; alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 17 and December 28, 1938, 
by Joe Grasso & Son from Galveston, Tex.; and charging that it was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was, labeled in part 
"Crescent Brand."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in part of a decomposed 
animal substance.
On August 5, 1939, the court having found that the product "contained both 
decomposed as well as marketable merchandise, and the claimant having con- 
sented to condemnation of the decomposed portion, judgment was entered 
ordering that the good be segregated from the unfit and that the latter be 
disposed of in a manner approved by this Department, but that it should not 
be used for human or animal food.
GROVER B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.