27074. Adulteration of dressed chickens.     U. S. v. 8 Barrels of Dressed Chickens.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 38842. 
Sample no. 26155-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On December 21, 1936, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of eight barrels of 
dressed chickens at Chicago, Ill., alleging that they had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about December 1, 1936, by the Worthington Creamery 
Produce Co., from Worthington, Minn., and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On February 15, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.