18605. Adulteration of salt mackerel.    U. S. v. 425 Kegrs of Salt Mackerel.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. So
D. No. 26237.    I. S. No. 27627.    S. No. 4562.)
Samples of salt mackerel 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 Georgia.
On or about April 21, 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 425 kegs of salt mackerel, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Atlanta, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Davis Bros. Fisheries Co., from Gloucester, Mass., on or about November 13, 
1930. and had been transported from the State of Massachusetts into the State 
of Georgia, 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.
On June 26, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.