19146. Adulteration of herring.    U. S. sr. 4 Boxes, et al., of Herring.    De¬
fault  decrees  of condemnation, forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.
&  D.  Nos.  27857,   27870,  27877.    I.   S.  Nos.  44126,  44129,   44165.    S.  Nos. 
5729, 5730, 5731.)
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.
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 12 boxes or cases of herring at Chicago, 
111., alleging that the article had been shipped by Herman Mickelson, from 
Little Marais, 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 Minne- 
sota 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, judgments 
of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.