19417. Adulteration of herring.     U. S. v. 1 Box of Herring.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 28248. 
I. S. No. 52161.    S. No. 6101.)
Samples of herring 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 April 7, 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 one box of herring at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by O. M. Petersen, from Two Harbors, Minn., on or about 
March 31, 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 May 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.
ARTHTJB M.HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.