16007 Adulteration of frozen poultry.     V. S. v. 1 Barrel of Frozen Poultry.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 22955.    I. S. No. 02404.    S. No. 1023.)
On August 3, 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 1 barrel of frozen poultry, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned about July 17, 1928, alleging that the 
article had been shipped by Swift & Co., Shenandoah, Iowa, and transported 
from the State of Iowa into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adultera- 
tion 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 a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, in that it 
consisted in part of a portion of an animal unfit for food, and in that it was 
the product of a diseased animal.
On October 11, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AKTHTIB M. HYDE,' Secretary of Agriculture.