29824. Adulteration of canned shad.    TJ. S. v. 72 Cases of Shad.   Default decree
of   condemnation   and  destruction.    (F.   Se  D.  No.   43947.    Sample   Nos. 
34601-D, 36297-D.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On or about September 27, 1938, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 72 cases of shad 
at Charlottesville, Va.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about August 13, 1938, by Howard Terminal from Oakland, 
Calif.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "Booth's Crescent Brand Spring Pack Shad * * * 
F. B. Booth Company, Inc.    *   *   *    San Francisco."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part 
of a decomposed animal substance.
On October 24, 1988, no claimant having appeared, Judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.