19932. Adulteration of   bluefins.      U.    S.   v    10   Boxes   of   Fish   (Bluefins).
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 27762.    I. S. No. 50633.    S. No. 5853.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of bluefins which 
were found to be infested with parasitic worms.
On or about February 19, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a 
libel praying seizure and condemnation of 10 boxes of fish at Memphis, Tenn., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
February 12, 1932, by the North Shore Fish & Freight Co., from Duluth, Minn., 
to Memphis, Tenn., and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " From North Shore Fish & 
Freight Co.    *    *    *   1 B Bluefins."
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, which rendered the 
article unfit for food.
On June 7, 1932, 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.
HENBT A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.