31072. Adulteration of dressed poultry    tl. S. v. Paul Garnett Gray, Sr.   (P. G.
Gray).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.    (F. & D. No. 42711.   Sample 
No. 26261-D.)
This case involved poultry which was found to be in whole or in part de- 
composed, diseased, and emaciated.
On November 14, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Paul Garnett Gray, Sr., trading as P. G. 
Gray, at Estherville, Iowa, alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act on or about September 10, 1938, from the State of 
Iowa into the State of New York, of a quantity of poultry that was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance. It was alleged to 
be adulterated further in that it consisted in part of the product of diseased 
animals, namely, poultry affected by disease at the time of slaughter.
On November 14, 1939, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
GBOVEB B. HILL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.