15947. Adulteration   of   frozen   poultry   and   dressed   poultry.      TJ;   S.   v.   1
Barrel of Frozen Poultry, et al. Default decrees of condemna- 
tion, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 23039, 23040, 23060. 
I. S. Nos. 03019, 03020, 03022.    S. Nos. 1123, 1124, 1152.)
On August 81 and September 7, 1928, respectively, the United States attorney 
for the Southern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the. United States for said district 
libels praying seizure and condemnation of 2 harries of frozen poultry and 1 bar- 
rel of dressed poultry at New York, N. Y., consigned by Edward Aaron, Inc., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in part from Fort Scott, Kans., and in 
part from Butler, Mo., in various lots, on or about August 16, August 18, and 
August 24, 1928, respectively, and had been transported from the States of 
Kansas and Missouri into the [State of New York, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a portion of an animal unfit for food and in that it was a 
product of a diseased animal. Adulteration was alleged with respect to a 
portion of the article for the further reason that it consisted in part of a. decom- 
posed animal substance.
On September 20 and September 27, 1928, respectively, no claimant having 
appeared for the property, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.