608*-x.    S.  No. E-5544.)
On November 4 and 24 and December 30, 1925, respectively, the United 
States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, acting upon a re- 
port by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United 
States for said district libels praying the seizure and condemnation of 1,007 
ases of canned shrimp, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
'hiladelphia, Pa., consigned by the Houma Packing Co., alleging that the 
rticle had been shipped from Houma, La., on or about July 24, 1925, and 
transported from the State of Louisiana into the State of Pennsylvania, and 
harging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
ras labeled in part: (Can) "Rita Brand Shrimp."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that it 
3nsisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
lbstance.
On November 23 and December 14, 1925, and on January 20, 1926, re- 
)ectively, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments of 
mdemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
lat the product be  destroyed by the United  States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.