19297. Adulteration of   rabbits.    IT.   S.  v.   91   Rabbits.    Default   decree   of
condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.   27325. 
I. S. No. 47902.    S. No. 5503.)
A large proportion of the rabbits in the shipment herein described having 
been found to be decomposed, diseased, and unfit for food, the Secretary of 
Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois.
On December 1, 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 91 rabbits contained in 1 barrel at Chicago, Ill., alleging that
the article had been shipped November 23, 1931, by the Zeigler Produce Co., 
from Fairfield, Iowa, and had been transported from the State of Iowa 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 decomposed, filthy, and putrid animal substance. Adul- 
teration was alleged for the further reason that the article was the product 
of diseased animals.
On January 11, 1932, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.