5388. Adulteration of poultry.    TJ. S. v. 25 Barrels of Poultry.   Default decree of
condemnation. Product ordered destroyed or delivered to a rendering' 
plant for rendering of the fat contents. (F. D. C. No. 10398. Sample No. 
46119-F.)
On August 12, 1943, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland 
filed a libel against 25 barrels of poultry at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 4,, 1943, by 
the Seaboard Poultry Co. from Dover, Del.; and charging that it was adulterated 
in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance 
by reason of the presence of diseased birds and birds contaminated with fecal 
' matter, and in that it was in whole or in part the product of a diseased animal 
or of an animal which had died otherwise than by slaughter. The article was 
labeled in part: "MiUsboro Farms Brand Extra,Fancy Delaware Poultry."
On September 14, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed or delivered to rendering 
plant for rendering of the fat contents.