10686. Adulteration of frozen tullibees. U. S. v. 250 Boxes of Frozen Tulli- 
bees. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.    (F. & D. No. 27786.    I. S. No. 29070.    S. No. 5882.)
Frozen tullibees taken from the import shipment involved in this action were 
found, upon examination, to be infested with the cysts of parasitic worms.
On February 26, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 i50 boxes of frozen tullibees at New York, N. Y., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Rousseau Lumber Co., from 
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on or about February 17, 1932, to New York, 
N. Y., 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, and in that 
it consisted of portions of animals unfit for food.
On March 14, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was ent6red, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HENRY A.  WALLACE,  Secretary of Agriculture c.