56039. Adulteration of frozen poultry. IT. S. v. 1 Keg, et al.r of Frozen 
Poultry Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No. 23026.    I. S. Nos. 03017, 03018.    S. No. 1117.)
On August 27, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 2 kegs of frozen poultry, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Topeka Packing Co., from Topeka, Kans., August 18, 1928, and transported from 
the State of Kansas 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 consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, in that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a portion of an animal unfit for food, and in 
that it was the product of a diseased animal.
On September 13, 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.