5305. Adulteration of sardines. IT* Sť * * * sr. 12 Cases of Sardines. 
Consent decree of condemnation, and forfeiture. Product ordered 
released on bond.    (P. & D. No. 7926.    I. S. No. 2835-m.    S. No. E-775.)
On December 18, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Con- 
necticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 12 cases of sardines, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at New Britain, Conn., alleging that the- article had been 
shipped on or about November 2, 1916, by the L. Piekert Fish Co., Boston, Mass., 
and transported from the State of Massachusetts into the State of Connecticut, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Guerin Brand American Sardines in Oil Packed by 
L. Piekert Fish Co., Boston, Mass."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On January 10, 1917, Lehman Piekert and Leo W. Piekert, trading under the 
name of the L. Piekert Fish Co., Boston, Mass., claimants, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be redelivered to said claimants, 
upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $150, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
CAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.