18845. Adulteration of fish  (bluefins).    U.  S. v. 4 Boxes of Fisb  (Bluefins).
Default decree of destruction entered. (F. & D. No. 26902. I. S. No. 
25824.    S. No. 5086.)
Samples of fish (bluefins) 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 Kentucky.
On August 19, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
cf the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of four boxes of fish (bluefins), remaining in the original packages 
at Covington, Ky., consigned by the Hogstad Fish Co., Duluth, Minn., August 15, 
1931, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce from 
Duluth, Minn., into the State of Kentucky, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, and 
in that it was a portion of an animal unfit for food.
On August 24, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property and the 
court having found that the product was spoiled and unfit for human consump- 
tion, a decree was entered ordering that the said product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.