5814. Adulteration of cofflfee. U. S. * * * v. 250 Sacks of Coffee. Con- 
sent decree of comdemiiation and forfeiture. Protlxiet ordered re- 
leased on bond.     (F. & D. No. 7767.    I. S. No. 8804-m.    S. No. E-705.)
On October 16, 1916, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel, and on Feb- 
ruary 19, 1917, an amendment thereto, for the seizure and condemnation of 250 
sacks of coffee, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Phila- 
delphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about September 
30, 1916, and transported from the Dominion of Canada into the State of Penn- 
sylvania, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that de- 
composed, unsound, and immature coffee beans and foreign material had been 
mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously 
affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for said 
article; and for the further reason that said article consisted in part of a 
decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 10, 1917, Frederick J. West (Inc.), New York, N. Y., claimant, 
having admitted the averments of the libel and consented to a decree, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be delivered to said claimant for recleaning under 
the supervision of the Chief of the Philadelphia Laboratory of the Bureau of 
Chemistry, upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $5,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
B. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.