19951. Adulteration of cull dressed poultry.     U. S. v. 9 Barrels and 1 Box
of   Cull Dressed  Poultry.    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   for- 
feiture, and destruction.     (No. 77-A.    F. & D. No. 28249.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of dressed poultry, which was 
found to be in part diseased and decomposed.
On April 26, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, 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 9 barrels and 1 box, totaling 2,000 pounds, of cull 
dressed poultry, remaining in the original unbroken packages at San Francisco, 
Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about April 16, 1932, by the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Association, 
from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Francisco, Calif., 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 animal substance, and in that it was a product 
of diseased animals.
On July 7, 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.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.