18860. Adulteration of herring. U. S. v. 100 Pounds, et al., of Herring 
(Bluefins). Default decrees of destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 27010, 
27011.    I. S. Nos. 40947, 40946.    S. Nos. 5230, 5231.)
? The herring (bluefins) involved in the shipment herein described having 
been found to be infested with worms, the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the matter to the United States attorney for Southern District of Ohio.
On September 28, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 200 pounds of herring, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped by Sam 
Johnson & Sons, Duluth, Minn., on or about September 22, 1931, and had been 
transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Ohio, 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 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance, 
and in that it consisted of a portion of an animal unfit for food.
On October 7, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, and the 
court having found that the product was spoiled and unfit for human consump- 
tion, decrees were entered, nunc pro tunc as of September 28, 1931, ordering 
that the said product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTJIUK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.