7807. Adulteration cf evaporated apples. U. S. * * * v. 25 Boxes of 
Evaporated Apples. Default decree of eoaJeninati-osi, forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 9001.    I. S   No. 16581-p.     S. No. W-228.)
On June 2G, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
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 con- 
demnation of 23 box^s of evaporated apples, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Denver, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or aboui April 3, 1918, and transported from the State of New York into 
the State of Colorado, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The boxes were labeled, in part, " 25 lbs. Net Fancy Whole 
Evaporated Apples Packed by Hartman & Co., Ilochestcr, N. Y., Sulphured, 
The Morey Mercantile Company, Denver, Colo."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of decomposed vegetable substance and was moldy, the 
surface being practically coveied by green-gray mold and the product having 
an offensive odor.
On August 26, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.