19240. Adulteration of   frozen   whitensh.     TJ.   S.   v.   10   Boxes   of   Frozen
White   Fish.    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and 
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 27884.    I. S. No. 50255.    S. No. 5901.)
Samples of fish from the shipment 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 February 18, 1932, 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 10 boxes of frozen whitefish at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Northern Cold Storage Warehouse from Duluth, 
Minn., on or about February 15, 1932, 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 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 April 22, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, a judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.