18618. Adulteration of   rabbits.     U.   S.   v.   1   Barrel   of   Rabbits.    Default 
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. & D. No.
27630.    I. S. No. 45322.    S. No. 5674.)
This action involved a shipment consisting of a barrel cf 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 cf the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of the said barrel of rabbits at Chicago, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Oldham Produce Co., from Bosworth, 
Mo., on or about December 28, 1931, 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 consisted 
in part of a decomposed, filthy, and putrid animal substance. Adulteration 
was alleged for the further reason that the article consisted of portions of 
animals unfit for fcod.
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.