16333.  Adulteration of   canned   sardines.      TJ.   S.   v.   6   Cases   of   Sardines. 
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 23013.    I. S. No. 02843.    S. No. 1101.)
On August 23, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern 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 6 cases of sardines at Albany, N. Y., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by H. F. Sawyer & Son, Vinalhaven, Me., June 28, 1928, and 
transported from the State of Maine into the State of New York, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: " Three Star Brand   *    *    *    Sardines,    *    *    *   packed by H.  F.
It was alleged in the libel that the article "was adulterated In that it 
consisted in wlrole or in rjart of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On September 26, 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.