3286. Adulteration of red perch fillets, haddock fillets, ocean perch fillets, cod
fillets, and whiting:. U. S. v. 2 Boxes of Red Perch Fillets (and S other 
seizure actions against frozen fish). Default decrees of condemnation 
and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 5440, 5441, 5589. 5627, 5740. 5747. Sample 
Nos. 29627-B, 42475-E, 42478-E, 50278-E, 50279-E, 64804-E, 64309-E, 64817-E, 
64819-E, 64824-E, 64880-B.) 
Examination showed the presence of decomposed fish in portions of these 
products and of parasitized fish in the remainder.
Between August 23 and September 12,1941, the United States attorneys for the 
District of Maryland, Western District of Pennsylvania, and the Northern District 
of Ohio filed libels against 8 16-pound boxes of red perch fillets at Baltimore, Md.; 
134 15-pound boxes of haddock fillets, 9 5-pound boxes of ocean perch fillets, 21
15-pound boxes of H & G whiting, and 52 10-pound boxes of red perch fillets at 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; and 13 10-pound boxes of cod fillets at Cleveland, Ohio, alleging 
that the articles had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from 
on or about July 7 to on or about August 25, 1941, by the Genoa Fisheries, Inc., 
from Boston, Mass.; and charging that they were adulterated in that portions 
consisted in whole or in part of decomposed substances and in that the remainder 
consisted in whole or in part of filthy substances.
Between September 26 and December 19, 1941, no claimant having appeared, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered destroyed.