6490. Adulteration of frozen eel pout flllets.   U. S. v. 41 Boxes of Frozen Eel Pout
Fillets.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No.
12210.   Sample No. 76412-F.)
LIBEL FILED :   April 19,1944, Southern District of New York.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about March 12, 15, and 16, 1944, by the Whaling 
City Fisheries, New Bedford, Mass.
PRODUCT: 41 boxes, each containing 15 pounds, of frozen eel pout fillets at 
New York, N. Y.
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the product consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of parasitized 
and diseased fish; and, Section 402 (a) (5), it was in whole or in part the 
product of a diseased animal.
DISPOSITION: May 3, 1944. No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.