19123. Adulteration of    dressed   poultry.    IT.    S.   v.    a    Barrels    of   Dressed
Poultry (Chickens). Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 27263.    I. S. No. 44088.    S. No. 5442.)
Samples of dressed chickens from the shipment herein described having 
been found to be diseased and decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture re- 
ported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois.
On November 18, 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 two barrels of dressed poultry at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about November 10, 1931, by the Weinberg 
Products Corporation, from Minneapolis, Minn., and had been transported, in 
interstate commerce from the State of Minnesota 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 con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed animal substance; adulteration 
was further alleged for the reason that the article was the product of diseased 
animals.
On January 11, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.