19768. Adulteration of   dressed  bluefins.    U.   S.   v.   2  Boxes   of   Fish   (Blue-
fins), et al. Product adjudged unfit for human consumption and 
ordered destroyed. (F. & D. Nos 27980, 27983, 27985. I. S. Nos. 53423, 
53428, 53431.    S. Nos. 6022, 6027, 6031.)
Samples of bluefins taken from the shipments involved in these actions were 
found to be infested with parasitic worms.
On April 2 and April 5, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Ohio, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying- 
seizure and condemnation of 2 boxes and 3 boxes, respectively, of the said blue- 
fins at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate- 
commerce, the former lot on or about March 28, 1932, and the latter on or about 
March 30, 1932, by the Hogstad Fish Co., from Duluth, Minn., to Cincinnati, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, and for the 
further reason that it consisted of portions of animals unfit for food.
On April 2 and April 5, 1932, the dates on which the respective lots were- 
seized, decrees were entered by the court finding that the product was unfit 
for human consumption, and ordering its immediate destruction by the United 
States marshal.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.