1449. Adulteration of frozen  cod fillets.    IT. S. v.  81 Boxes of Frozen Fillets.
Default  decree  of condemnation  and  destruction.     (F.  D.   C.  No.  3336. 
Sample Nos. 39522-E, 39523-E, 39528-E, 39529-E.)
On November 4, 1940, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri filed a libel against 81 boxes of frozen fillets at St. Louis, Mo., alleging 
thai the article had. rbgen ^hipped in interstate commerce on or about August 12, 
1940, by the Gloucester Fresh Fish Co., from Gloucester, Mass.; and charging that 
it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed sub- 
stance.   The article was labeled in part: "Northeast Skin Cod Fillets."
On November 30, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.