19968. Adulteration of poultry.    U. S. v. 3 Cases of Poultry.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and  destruction.     (No. 80—A.     F. & D. 
No. 28294.)
This action involved the shipment of a quantity of poultry that was found to 
be in part diseased and decomposed.
On May 9, 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 three cases of the said 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 Swift & 
Co., from Portland, Oreg., 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 consisted 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, and in that it was 
the 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.