15476. Adulteration of crab meat.   U. S. v. 2 Barrels, etc. (and 1 other seizure
action).    (F. D. C. Nos. 28088, 28089.    Sample Nos. 47912-K, 47913-K.)
LIBELS FILED : August 26 and 29, 1949, Southern District of New York and Dis- 
trict of Maryland.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: By Lancaster Seafoods, Inc., one shipment on or about 
August 23,1949, from Baltimore, Md., to New York, N. Y., and one shipment on 
or about August 24, 1949, from Morattico, Va., to Baltimore, Md.
PRODUCT: Crab meat. 3 100-pound barrels, 2 119-pound barrels, and 1 126- 
pound barrel at New York, N Y., and Baltimore, Md. Analyses showed that 
the product was contaminated with B. coll of fecal origin.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy animal substance; and, Section 402 (a) (4), a por- 
tion of the article had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it 
may have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION:    September 28 and October 10, 1949.   Default decrees of condem- 
nation and destruction. 
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