18780. Adulteration of tullibees. IT. S. v. .177 Cases of Tullibees. Default 
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. & D. No.
26715,    I. S. No. 30778.    S. No. 4865.)
Samples of tullibees from the shipment herein described having been found 
to be infested with worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
On June 25,1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 177 cases of tullibees, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Phila- 
delphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been imported into the United States 
from Canada, having been shipped by the Royal Bank of Canada from Riverton, 
Manitoba, on or about January 15, 1931, and that it was adulterated in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, and 
in that it was a portion of an animal unfit for food.
On July 15, 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.