18922. Adulteration of herring.    IT. S. v. 1 Box of Herring.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (P.  & D. No. 26726. 
I. S. No. 35680.    S. No. 4878.)
Samples of herring from the shipment herein described having been found 
to contain worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On June 30, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of one box of herring at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Flieth Ehlers Mercantile Co., from Cornucopia, Wis., on or 
about June 19, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Wisconsin 
into the State of Illinois, 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 consisted 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance. Adulteration 
was alleged for the further reason that the article consisted of a portion of an 
animal unfit for food.
On October 12, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.