18850. Adulteration of herring. TJ. S. v. 2 Boxes of Herring;. Default de- 
cree of destruction entered. (F. & D. No. 26899. I. S. No. 37309. 
S. No. 5085.)
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 Southern District of Ohio.
On August 19, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of two boxes of herring at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by,the Booth Fisheries Co., Duluth, Minn., on or about Au- 
gust 15, 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 was 
infested with triaenophori (worms) and consisted wholly or partly of a filthy, 
decomposed, or putrid animal substance, and in that it was a portion of an 
animal unfit for food.
On September 2, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, and the 
court having found that the product was -spoiled and unfit for human con- 
sumption, a decree was entered, nunc pro tunc as of August 20, 1931, ordering 
that the said product be destroyed by the United States'marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.