10368. Adulteration of oranges.     V.  S.     *     *     *     v.  462  Boxes   of     *     *     *
Oranges. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond. (F. & D. No. 16176. I. S. No. 10952-t. S. No. 
W-1068.)
On April 1, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 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 462 
boxes of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Portland, 
Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the California Fruit Grow- 
ers Exchange, from Mentone, Calif., March 23, 1922, and transported from the 
State of California into the State of Oregon, and charging adulteration in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Washing- 
ton Navels Direct Brand Crafton Orange Growers Association, Redlands, Cali- 
fornia."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted wholly or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 7, 1922, the California Fruit Growers Exchange having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claim- 
ant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $2,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in 
part that the sai,d product be sorted and the bad portion destroyed.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.