17105. Adulteration of frozen poultry.    TJ. S. v. 2 Barrels of Frozen Poultry.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 24223.    I. S. No. 025804.    S. No. 2471.)
On November 8, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, 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 2 barrels of frozen poultry, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Bellman Produce Co., from Aberdeen, S. Dak., October 12, 1929, and 
transported from the State of South Dakota into the State of Illinois, 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 part of a decomposed animal substance, and in that it was the product 
of diseased animals.
On February 20, 1930, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.