21675. Adulteration of 1 lnenni>.    If. S. v. 3 Boxes of Fish.    Default  decree
of detraction.     (F. & D. no. 31303.     Sample no 42539-A.)
This case involved a shipment of bluefins that were found to be infested with 
worms.
On October 19. 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of throe 100-pound 
boxes of fish at Covington, Ky., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about October 17, 1933, by the Hogstad Fish Co.. 
from Duluth, Minn., 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, or putrid animal substance, and in that 
it consisted of portions of animals unfit for food.
On October 19, 1933, the court having found that the fish wore spoiled and 
unfit for human consumption, judgment was entered ordering that they be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.