18870. Adulteration of Herring.    V. S. v. 200 Pounds of Herring (Bluefins),
Default decree of destruction entered.     (F. & D. No. 27022.    I. S. No. 
25045.    S. No. 5240.)
The herring (bluefins) involved in 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 October 1, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
rhe United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 200 pounds of herring, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Sam Johnson & Sons Fisheries, Duluth, Minn., on or about September 24, 
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 con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, 
and in that it was a portion of an animal unfit for food.
No claimant having appeared for the property, and the court having found 
that the product was spoiled and unfit for human consumption, a decree was 
entered nunc pro tunc as of October 2, 1931, ordering that the said product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.