19549. Adulteration of dressed herring. V. S. v. 9 Cases of Dressed 
Herring. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (P. & D. No. 27957.    I. S. No. 50767.    S. No. 5978.)
Samples of dressed herring from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be infested with worms and unfit for food, the Secretary of Agri- 
culture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois.
On March 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 nine cases of dressed herring at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by Thompson Bros., from Two Harbors, Minn., on or 
about February 29, 1932, 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 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, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.