19610. Adulteration of   rabbits.    V.   S.   v.   3   Drams   of   Rabbits.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. & D. No.
27629.    I. S. No. 45323.    S. No. 5672.)
This action was based on the shipment of three drums of slaughtered rabbits. 
Samples examined were found to be partially decomposed.
On January 6, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of the said three drums of rabbits at Chicago, Ill., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about December 28, 1931, 
by Mason & Somerfeld, from Brunswick, Mo., and had been transported from 
the State of Missouri 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 decomposed, filthy, and putrid animal substance. Adultera- 
tion was alleged for the further reason that the article consisted of portions of 
animals unfit for food.
On February 11, 1932, 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.