18900. Adulteration of herring. U. S. v. 600 Pounds of Herring:. Default 
decree of destruction entered. (F. & D. Nos. 27O20, 27021. I. S. Nos 
40949, 40950.    S. Nos. 5237, 5243.)
The herring in the shipments herein described having been found to be in- 
fested with worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
On October 1, 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 600 pounds of herring, remaining unsold in the original packages 
at Covington, Ky., consigned by the Hogstad Fish Co., Duluth, Minn.,  Sep-
tember 24, 1931, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce from Duluth, Minn., into the State of Kentucky, 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 decomposed animal substance, and in that it was a portion 
of an animal unfit for food.
On October 3, 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 ordering that the said product be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.