16043   Adulteration of chicken livers.    U. S. v. 7 Cases of Chicken Livers. 
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 22964.    I. S. No. 02824.    S., No. 1039.)
On August 9, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 7 cases of chicken livers, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been, 
shipped by the Cudahy Packing Co., from Kansas City, Mo., on or about July 6,, 
1928, and had been transported from the State of Missouri into the State of New 
York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, in that it con- 
sisted in part of a portion of an animal unfit for food, and in that it was the- 
product of a diseased animal.
On August 28, 1928, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.