16056. Adulteration of frozen poultx*y.    U. S. v. 1 Barrel of Frozen Poultry.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 23096.    I. S. No. 03051.    S. No. 1191.)
On September 21, 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, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Vilas & Co., from Storm Lake, Iowa, on or about September 8,1928, and had been 
transported from the State of Iowa 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 part of a filtby, 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 October 8, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.