20222. Adulteration of herring.   U.S. v. 2 Boxes, et al., of Bluefln Herring.
Default   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. nos. 28743, 28744.    Sample nos. 4504-A, 4505-A.)
These cases involved interstate shipments of quantities of herring which 
were found to be infested with parasitic worms.
On July 29, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seiz- 
ure and condemnation of four boxes of bluefin herring at Chicago, Ill., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about July 
26, 1932, by H. Mickelsen, from Schroeder, Minn., to Chicago, Ill., 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 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 September 26, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.