NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2454.
(Giycn pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. 390 Boxes of Oranges.   Decree of condemnation by consent.   Goods
destroyed.
ADULTERATION OF ORANGES.
On January 30, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 390 boxes of 
oranges, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and 
in the possession of the Wabash Railroad upon its tracks in St. 
Louis, Mo., in a car marked and designated " S F R D 8498 ", al- 
leging that the product had been shipped on or about January 25, 
1913, from the State of California into the State of Missouri, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
Three hundred and ten boxes of the product were labeled: " Cali- 
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange. Crafton Brand Washington 
Navels, Packed by Crafton Orange Growers Assn., Redlands, Calif." 
Eighty boxes were labeled: " California Fruit Growers Exchange 
(design, picture of two ripe oranges, one green orange, orange blos- 
soms, and a lake)." Each of the oranges bore a wrapper with the 
following label: " California Oranges and Lemons."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that the oranges had been frozen and their tissues showed disintegra- 
tion and said oranges had been made bitter by freezing, and had 
commenced to rot and decay as a result of such freezing, and were
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light in weight and contained little juice, and the tissues showed dis- 
coloration by reason of said freezing, and the oranges were wholly 
unfit for food.
On February 3, 1912, the California Fruit Growers Exchange, at. 
St. Louis, Mo., claimant, having entered its appearance, admitted 
the allegations in the libel, and consented to a decree and the court 
having found that the product had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, by the Crafton Orange Growers Association, Mentone, Cal., 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered. It was or- 
dered by the court that the product, be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 23, 1913.
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