3061. Adulteration of crab meat.     U. S. v. 336 Cans and 87 Cans of Crab Meat.
Default  decree  of condemnation  and destruction.     (F.  D.  C.  No.  5384.
Sample No. 59432-E.) 
On or about August 15, 1941, the United States attorney for the District of 
Columbia filed a libel against 236 pound cans of regular crab- meat and 87 
pound cans of claw crab meat at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on August 12, 1941,"by V. S. Lank- 
ford & Co. from Hampton, Va.; and charging that it was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed-substance; 
and in that it had been prepared and packed under insanitary conditions 
whereby it might have become contaminated .with filth.
On September 25, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.-