18816. Adulteration of   herring.    U.   S.   v.   6   Boxes   of   Herring.    Consent
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 26774.    I. S. No. 35691.    S. No. 4894.)
Samples of herring 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 Northern District of Illinois.
On July 3, 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 six boxes of herring, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Fisher Fish Co., 
from Green Bay, Wis., on or about June 27, 1931, and had been transported 
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adultera- 
tion 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 filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, and in that 
it consisted of a portion of an animal unfit for food.
On July 13, 1931, the claimant having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTFB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.