19340. Adulteration of tullibees.    U.  S.  v.  100 Boxes  of Frozen Tullibees.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,    forfeiture,   and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 27320.    I. S. No. 39382.    S. No. 5504.)
Samples of frozen tullibees from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be infested with triaenophorous cysts (indicating worm infestation), 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Western District of New York.
On November 30, 1931, 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 100 boxes of frozen tullibees, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Buffalo, N. Y., consigned by the Nordic Fish Co., alleging that the 
article had been shipped from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on May 28, 1931, 
into the State of New York, 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 
wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On December 30, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.