16107. Adulteration of frozen poultry.    TJ. S. v. 1 Barrel of Frozen Poultry.
Consent  decree  of condemnation  and  destruction  entered.     (F.  &
D. No, 22953.    I. S. No. 02822.    S. No. 1021.)
On August 7, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, 
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 con- 
demnation of 1 barrel of frozen poultry, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at New Haven, Conn., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Armour Creameries, Boonville, Mo., on or about July 17, 1928, and 
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Connecticut, and charg- 
ing 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 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 September 25, 1928, the owner of the product having consented to the- 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was ordered' by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States- 
marshal.
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ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.