NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO.  2144.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION  OF PRUNES.
On May 4, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for 
the seizure and condemnation of five boxes, each containing 25 
pounds, of prunes, remaining unsold in the original unbroken pack- 
ages and in possession of the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the product was being transported from 
the State of Maryland into the State of Florida, and charging adul- 
teration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was 
labeled: "25 lbs net; The Very Best Pitted Prunes—Gold medal 
Brand—Santa Clara Fruit."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, 
prunes.
On June 15, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
further ordered that the product should be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 21,., 1912.
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