16011. Adulteration of frozen poultry and frozen enlciiens. IT. S.' v. 1 Bar- 
rel of Frozen Poultry, et al. Default decrees of condemnation, 
forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 22901, 22902,-22903, 22904, 
22931. I. S. Nos. 02808,. 02809, 02810, 02811, 02817. S. Nos. 968, 969, 970, 
971, 997.) 
6ni July 23 and July 31, 1928, respectively, the United States attorney for 
the District of Massachusetts, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of 2 barrels of frozen poultry and 13 bar- 
rels of frozen chickens, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Spring- 
field, Mass., consigned between the dates of June 12 and July 16, 1928, alleging 
that the article had been shipped by Swift & Co., in interstate commerce, in 
various consignments, from Chillicothe, Mo.> Des Moines, Iowa, Newton, Iowa, 
and Ottumwa, Iowa, respectively, into the State of Massachusetts* and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels 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 an animal unfit for food, and in that it was the product of 
a diseased animal.
On September 26, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary af Agriculture.