19141. Adulteration of herring.    IT. S. *v. 3 Boxes, et al., of Herring.    De¬
fault  decrees   of  condemnation, forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.
& D. Nos. 27854, 27859.    I. S. Nos. 44145, 44167.    S. Nos. 5732, 5733.)
Samples of herring from the shipments herein described having been found 
to be infested with worms and unfit for food, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois. 
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On December 11, 1931 and December 15, 1931, the United States attorney 
filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of six boxes of herring at Chicago, Ill., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by Ed Ness, from Beaver Bay, Minn., 
in part on or about December 4, 1931, and in part on or about December 11, 
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 libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, 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 January 11, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.