14355. Adulteration   of   canned   sardines.     U.   S.   v.   20   Cases   of   Sardines.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture and destruction.     (F.
& D. No. 20421.    I. S. No. 6860-x.    S. No. E-5492.)
On September 9, 1925, 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 praying seizure 
and condemnation of 20 cases of sardines, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Hartford, Conn., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Maine Cooperative Sardine Co., Lubec, Me., on or about 
August 4, 1925, and transported from the State of Maine into the State of 
Connecticut, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. The article was labeled in part: " Eagle Brand American Sardines 
* * * Packed By North Lubec Manufacturing & Canning Co., Factories- 
North Lubec, and Stonington, Me."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On February 20, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.