18715. Adulteration of herring.    U. S. v. 200 Pounds  of Herring.     Default
decree   of   destruction.     (F.  &  D.   No.   26800.    I.   S.   No.   25774.     S.   No. 
4958.)
Samples of herring from the shipment herein described having been found to 
be filthy and unfit for food, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
On July 22, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 200 pounds of herring at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Booth Fisheries Co., Duluth, Minn., on or about July 16, 
1931, and had been transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of 
Ohio, 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- 
tained triaenophori, and consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, 
or putrid animal substance, and in that it consisted of a portion of an animal 
unfit for food.
On August 4, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered nunc pro tunc as of July 22, 1931, ordering that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.