16245. Adulteration of   dressed   cliickens.     U.   S.   v.   3   Barrels   of   Dressed
Chickens.     Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,  and  de- 
struction.    (F. & D. No. 23157.    I. S. No. 01776.    S. No. 1259.)
On October 19, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and 
condemnation of 3 barrels of dressed chickens at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Sam Trainin Produce Co., from Kansas City, 
Mo., October 29, 1927, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State 
of Illinois, 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 consisted 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, and for the further 
reason that it was in part the product of a diseased animal.
On March 13, 1929, 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.
R. W. DXJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.