19805. Adulteration of blueflns.    U.  S. v. 3 Boxes of Fish.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 27981. 
I. S. No. 47835.    S. No. 6025.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of blueflns, samples 
of which were found upon examination to be infested with parasitic worms.
On April 2, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, 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 three boxes of fish (blueflns) at Detroit, Mich., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
March 28, 1932, by the North Shore Fish & Freight Co., from Duluth, Minn., 
to Detroit, Mich., and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. 
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It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, and in 
that it consisted of portions of animals unfit for food.
On May 5, 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.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of AffricuUure.