NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1087.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTEEATION OF SHAD.
On February 16, 1911, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Columbia, acting upon the report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the Supreme Court of said District a libel praying condemns • 
lion  and forfeiture  of 40 cold-storage shad  in the possession  of 
Benjamin Bailey, Washington, D. C.
Examination made by the Bureau of Chemistry of the United 
States Department of Agriculture showed the product to be in a 
putrid and decomposed state. The libel alleged that the shad were 
offered for sale in the District of Columbia, and were adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, because 
they consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On April 4, 1911, the cause came on for hearing, and no claimant 
to the product having appeared and no answer having been filed, the 
court issued its decree condemning and forfeiting the said product 
to the use of the United States for the causes set forth in the above 
libel, and ordering the destruction thereof by the marshal.
JAMBS WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture, 
WASHINGTON, D. C, August &j, 1911.
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