16005. Adulteration   of   canned   sardines.     TJ.   S.   v.   7%   Cases   of   Sardines.
Default  order of  destruction  entered.     (F.  & D.  No.  23045.     I.  S. No. 
02527.     S.  No.  1132.)
On September 4, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 7% cases of sardines, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Cambridge, Mass., consigned about June 12, 1928, alleging that the 
ai'ticle had been shipped by the Ramsdell Packing Co., Lubec, Me., and trans- 
ported from the State of Maine into the State of Massachusetts, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part: " Stag Brand Packed by Ramsdell Packing Co., Lubec, Washn. Co., Me."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed animal substance.
On October 11, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture-.