17112. Adulteration of   canned   sardines.    TJ.   S.   v.   70   Cases   of   Sardines.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 22460.    I. S. No. 20441-x.    S. No. 567.)
On February 16,1928, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court of the district aforesaid, holding a District Court, a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 70 cases of sardines, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article was being sold and 
offered for sale in the District of Columbia by the* National Wholesale Grocery 
Co., Washington, D. C., and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Casco Brand American 
Sardines   *   *   *   The Brawn Company, Portland, Maine."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On February 13, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.