18125. Adulteration of dressed poultry.    IT.  S. v.  530 Pounds  of Poultry.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,    and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 26038.    I. S. No. 20265.    S. No. 4334.)
Examination of dressed poultry from the shipment herein described having 
shown that it consisted largely of cull poultry and that a large part was de- 
composed, emaciated, and diseased, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
On March 18, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 530 pounds of dressed poultry, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by St. Ansgar Product Co., from St. Ansgar, Iowa, in part on or about June 9 
and in part on or about June 12, 1930, and had been transported from the 
State of Iowa into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion 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, 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 April 14, 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.
ABTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.