18116. Adulteration of   dressed   poultry.    XT.   S.   v.   31   Boxes   of   Dressed
Poultry. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No. 25946.    I. S. No. 1104.    S. No. 4203.)
Samples of dressed poultry from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Northern District of California.
On February 24, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 31 boxes of dressed poultry, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the F. J. Kwapil Co., from Seattle, Wash., on or about February 
9, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Washington into the 
State of California, 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 wholly or partly of a decomposed animal substance.
On March 25, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.