7068. Misbranding   of   Chili   peppers.     IT.   S.   *     *    *    v.   107   Saelcs   of   Chili
Peppers. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
net ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 9626. I. S. Nos. 6290-r, 
6291-r, 6292-r.    S. No. C-1038.)
On January 24, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Texas, 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 condemna- 
tion of 107 sacks of Chili peppers at Austin,* Tex., alleging that the article had 
been shipped on or about November 23, 1918, and December 17, 1918, by J. A. 
Knapp, Garden Grove, Calif., and transported from the State of California into 
the State of Texas, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub- 
stance, being moldy and full of worms.
On June 20, 1919, the Walker Properties Association, Austin, Tex., having 
filed a claim for the product, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be delivered 
to said claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the 
act, conditioned in part that the product should be used in the preparation of 
animal and chicken feed only.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.