16116. Adulteration of   frozen   poultry.    V.   S.   v.   78   Barrels,   et   al.,   o-f
Frozen Ponltry. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 22762. I. S. Nos. 244T8-X, 
24479-x..   S.   No.   794.)
On May 9, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
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 78 barrels and 75 boxes of frozen poultry, remaining unsold at Jersey City, 
N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Central Cold Storage 
Co., Chicago, Ill., on or about December 28, 1927, and transported from the 
State of Illinois into the State of New Jersey, 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 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 November 15, 1928, the Silz Packing Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and 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 released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,900, or the 
deposit of collateral in like amount, conditioned in part that the portion unfit 
for human consumption be separated from the lot and destroyed or denatured.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.