19969. Adulteration of canned shrimp.    TJ. S. v. 60 Cases of Canned Shrimp.
Default    decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 26729.    I. S. No. 23025.    S. No. 4877.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of canned shrimp, 
samples of which were found to be partially decomposed.
On July 1, 1931, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 50 cases of canned shrimp, remaining in the origi- 
nal unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had 
been shipped on or about May 9,1931, by the Pelican Lake Oyster & Packing Co., 
from Houma, La., to San Francisco, Calif., and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) " S and 
W Large Size Shrimp."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On August 1, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.