7324, Adulteration of dressed chickens.    U. S.   *   *    *   v. 26,400 Pounds  of
Dressed Chickens. Consent decree of condemnation and forfei- 
ture. Product ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 10086. I. S. 
No. 5767-r.     S. No. C-1168.)
On April 21, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of Mis- 
souri, 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 con- 
demnation of 26,400 pounds of dressed chickens, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about April 10, 1919, by the Fuller Produce Co., Leavenworth, 
Kans., and transported from the State of Kansas into the State of Missouri, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 5, 1919, S. C. Porter, A. L. Fuller, John Schalker, Jr., and F. M. Pot- 
ter, Kansas City, Mo., claimants, having consented to a decree, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be released to said claimants upon the payment of the costs of the 
proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that ? the articles should not be dis- 
posed of except under the supervision of a food and drug inspector of this de- 
partment.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.