23145. Adulteration of crab meat.    V. S. v. 1 Barrel of Crab Meat.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 33564.    Sample 
no. 5088-B.)
this case involved an interstate shipment of crab meat that was found to 
contain filth.
On August 20, 1934, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one barrel of 
crab meat at York, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce, on or about August 15, 1934, by the Hoffman Sea Food Co., 
of Wenona, Md., from Deal's Island, Md., and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On September 12, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and destruction of the product was ordered.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.