18018. Adulteration of dressed poultry.    TJ.  S. v. 27 Barrels and 1 Box of
Poultry. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 25631. I. S. No. 25361. S. 
No. 3920.)
Examination of the herein-described shipment having shown the presence 
therein of tuberculous, emaciated, and otherwise diseased or unfit poultry, the 
Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for 
the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about January 7, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 27 barrels and 1 box of poultry at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Fairmont Packing Co., from Fairmont, 
Minn., December 24, 1930, and had been transported from the State of Minne- 
sota into the State of Illinois, 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 consisted 
in part of emaciated and insufficiently bled birds, and birds with generalized
tuberculosis, peritonitis, and hepatitis; in that it consisted in part of a -de- 
composed animal substance; and in that it was the product of a diseased 
animal.
On February 26, 1931, the Fairmont Packing Co., Fairmont, Minn., claimant, 
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 to be 
reselected under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the law.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.