7039. Adulteration of evaporated milk.    U. S.    *    *    *   v. 138 Cases of Evap 
orated Mills.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de~>
struction.     (F. & D. No   9568.     I. S. No. 15275-r.    S. No. E-1201.)
On January 6, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation 
of 138 cases of evaporated milk, consigned on or about December 14, 1918, 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped and transported from the State of New 
York into the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Elk-horn Brand 
Unsweetened Evaporated Milk."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
article consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 14, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture,