18910. Adulteration of herring:.    IT. S. v. 400 Pounds of Herring:.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27009.    I. S. No. 40944.    S. No. 5223.)
Samples of herring from 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 the Southern District of Ohio.
On or about October 2, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 400 pounds of herring, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at Dayton, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Hogstad Fish Co., from 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 libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy and putrid animal substance, and in that it was a 
portion of an animal unfit for food.
On October 31, 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.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.