15952. Adulteration   of   frozen   poultry      TJ.   S.   v.   Z   Barrels   of   Frozen   Poul 
try.     Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction..
(F. & D. No. 22983.    I. S. No. 02825.    S. No. 1052.)
On August 15, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture1, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 2 barrels of frozen poultry, remaining in tlie 
original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that1 the article had 
been shipped by the Armour Creameries Co., from Clinton, Mo., on or about 
July 24, 1928, and had been transported! from the State of Missouri into the 
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of emaciated and tubercular birds, and was therefore unfit 
for food, and in that it was the product of a diseased animal.
On September 7, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.