2886. Adulteration of frozen percli and frozen haddock:.     U. S. v. 190 Boxes of
Frozen Perch (and 2 other seizure actions against frozen fish). Default 
decrees of condemnation and destruction. s,F. D. C. Nos. 5617, 6079. 7322. 
Samples Nos. 29639-B, 64556-B, 79109-E.)
Examination of samples of these products showed that the haddock and a 
portion of the perch were in whole or in part decomposed, and that the remainder 
of the perch was infested with parasites.
On September 5 and October 24, 1941, and April 10, 1942, the United States 
attorneys for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio and the Western 
District of New York filed libels against 190 10-pound boxes of frozen perch 
at Cincinnati and 30 10-pound boxes of frozen haddock at Akron, Ohio, and 
37 10-pound boxes of frozen perch at Buffalo, N. Y., alleging that the articles 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 21 and September,22, 
1941, and April 2,1942, by New England Fillet Co., Inc., from Boston, Mass.; and 
charging that they were adulterated in that a portion of the perch consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance, and in that the haddock and the remainder 
of the perch consisted in whole or in part of decomposed substances. The 
articles were labeled in part: "Ocean Perch * * * Gloucester Seafoods 
Corp."; "Small Haddock * * * Sea Crest Brand"; or "Sea Crest Brand 
Fish Frosted Fillets [rubber stamped "Ocean Perch"]."
On October 1 and November 26, 1941, and May 11, 1942, no claimant having 
appeared, judgments of condemnation were entered and the products were 
ordered destroyed.