18872. Adulteration of berringr.    IT. S. v. 3 Boxes of Herring.    Default de 
cree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 27008.    I. S. No. 
34763.    S. No. 5228.)
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 Western District of Pennsylvania.
On September 28, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
?condemnation of three boxes of herring, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Hogstad Fish Co., from Duluth, Minn., on or about September 24, 1931, and 
lad been transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Penn- 
sylvania, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: "Dr. Blueflns * * * Hogstad Fish Co., 
Duluth, Minn."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy and putrid animal substance, and in that it was a 
portion of an animal unfit for food. 
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On September 30, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ir^nt of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.