18779. Adulteration of tullibees, TJ. S. v. 68 Cases of Tullibees. Default 
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. & D. No.
26740.    I. S. No. 30791.    S. No. 4889.)
Samples of tullibees from the import shipment herein described having been 
found to contain worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported' the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
On July 2, 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 68 cases of tullibees, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped r on or about 
December 8,1930, by the Armstrong Gimle Fisheries, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
Canada, into the State of Pennsylvania, and that it was adulterated in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the artiele was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted of a portion of an animal unfit for food, and in that it consisted in whole 
or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On July 22, 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.
ABTHTJS M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.