16045. Adulteration of frozen poultry.    TJ. S. v. 1 Barrel of Frozen Poultry.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeitm-e, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 23010.    I. S. No. 03012.    S. No. 1093.)
On August 24, 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 1 barrel of frozen poultry at New York, N. Y., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by T. Jensen & Sons, August 9, 1928, from 
Emporia, Kans,, and had been 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 con- 
sisted in whode 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 7, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the properly, 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.
.    ARTHTXR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.