19683. Adulteration of  herring.     U.  S.  v.  6 Boxes  of Herring.    Decree  of
condemnation and destruction entered.     (F. & D. No. 27804.    I. S. No, 
43307.    S. No. 5909.)
Herring taken from the interstate shipment involved in this action having 
been found to be infested with parasitic worms, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Pennsylvania.
On March 3, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of six boxes of the said herring, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about February 25, 1932, by Sam Johnson & Son's 
Fisheries, from Duluth, Minn., to Pittsburgh, Pa., 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, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, and in 
that it consisted of portions of animals unfit for food.
On March 3, 1932, no claim having been interposed for the property, and 
the consignee having consented to its destruction, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.