80694. Adulteration of frozen fillets.    U. S. v. 20 Boxes and 290 Boxes of Percb,
Fillets.    Default decrees of condemnation.    Product ordered con-verted 
into fertilizer.    (F. & D. Nos. 44866, 45062.   Sample Nos. 32385-D, 54375-D.)
This product contained parasitic worms.
On February 24 and March 23, 1939, the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 310 boxes 
of perch fillets at Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about January 12 and March 4, 1939, in part from 
Provincetown, Mass., and in part from Boston, Mass., by Atlantic Coast Fish- 
eries ; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy animal substance.
On April 24 and May 12, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered converted into 
fertilizer.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.