18999. Adulteration of herring.    IT. S. -v. 1 Box of Herring.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 27155. 
I. S. No. 40010.    S. No. 5294.)
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 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 
condemnation of one box of herring at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by Arnold G. Jacobson, from Beaver Bay, Minn., on or about 
August 14, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Minnesota 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 con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed, filthy, and putrid animal substance. Adultera- 
tion 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, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.