1582. Adulteration of   frozen  whiting.    U.   S.   v.   825  Boxes   and  75  Boxes  of
Whiting.    Default decrees of condemnation  and destruction.     (F. D. C.
Nos. 3327, 3348.    Sample Nos. 27474-E, 31864-E.)
Examination of this product showed the presence of decomposed fish.
On October 31 and November 15, 1940, the United States attorneys for the 
Southern District of Ohio and the Northern District of Illinois filed libels 
against 825 boxes of butterfly whiting at Cincinnati and Norwood, Ohio, and 75 
boxes of H. and G. whiting at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the articles had been 
shipped on or about September 23 and 29, 1940, by Gloucester Seafoods Cor- 
poration from Gloucester, Mass.; and charging that they were adulterated in 
that they consisted in whole or in part of decomposed substances.
On December 10, 1940, and January 28, 1941, no claimant having appeared, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered 
destroyed.