18123. Adulteration of   dressed   poultry.    TJ.   S.   v.   1   Barrel   of   Dressed
Poultry. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No. 26057.    I. S. No. 20267.    S. No. 4384.)
Samples of dressed poultry from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed and emaciated, the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the matter to the United States attorney for the Southern District of New 
York.
On March 21, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of one barrel of dressed poultry, remaining in the original unbroken 
package at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Sanford Ziegler from Fairfield, Iowa, on or about March 13, 1930 (November 
13, 1930), and had been transported from the State of Iowa 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 iilterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, o; putrid animal substance; 
in that it consisted in part of portions of animals unfit for food; and in that 
it was the product of diseased animals.
On April 14, 1931, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.