18781. Adulteration of herring. IT. S. v. 8.Boxes of Herring:. 'Default de- 
cree of destruction entered. (F. & D. No. 26785. I. 8. Nos. 36272, 
36273.    S. No. 4908.) 
Samples of herring from the shipment herein described having been foilnd to 
be infested with worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
On July 8, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
-United States for- the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure- and condem- 
nation of eight boxes of herring at Cincinnati, Ohio, 'alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Lake Superior Fi?b, Co., Duluth,<Minn., o^or. about July 
2, 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 a;ct.
It was alleged in( the libel that thg article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy,'decomposed, or putrid animal substance, 
and initbatit was a portion of an-animal .unfit for food., . .-?-.. j u , 4>-> 
- !-Qh"July 9, 1931, no claimant having appeared^for the property, -judgment was 
entered finding the product unfit1 for human "consumption and ordering that it 
be destroyed by the United States marshal,
/       ,ABTHua,M? ?YDE, Secretary of Agriculture.