4786. Adulteration of frozen whiting.   IT. S. v. 45,232 Pounds and 36,231 Pounds
of Fish. Consent decrees of condemnation. Product ordered sold to 
highest bidder for non-food purposes. (F. D. C. Nos. 8700,8853. Sample 
Nos 6323-F, 7064-F.)
On November 4 and. 10, 1942, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri filed libels against a total of 81,463 pounds of frozen whiting 
at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com-
inerce on or about October 16 and 21, 1942, by Trans-Oceahlc Fisheries from 
New York, N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a decomposed substance.
On February 12, 1943, the Trans-Oceanic Fisheries, claimant, having consented 
to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation were entered and the product 
was ordered sold to the purchaser offering the highest bid and adopting such 
safeguards as required by the Federal Security Agency against the fish being 
used in violation of law.