16117. Adulteration of   frozen   poultry.      IT.   S.   v.   129   Barrels   of   Frozen
Poultry. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct  released  under  bond.     (F. &  D.  22792.     I.   S.  No.  24490-x.     S.  No.
827.)
I On May 22, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of 129 barrels of frozen poultry, remaining unsold at Jersey City, N. J., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Wadley Co., Pana, Ill., on or 
about February 21, 1928, and transported from the State of Illinois into the 
State of New Jersey, 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, or putrid animal substance, in that it 
consisted in part of a portion of an animal unfit for food, and in that it was 
the product of a diseased animal.
On November 8, 1928, the Silz Packing Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y.. claim- 
ant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $3,600, 'or the 
deposit of collateral in like amount, conditioned in part that the portion unfit 
for human consumption be separated from the lot and destroyed or denatured.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.