10589.?Adulteration of oranges.    TJ. S.     *     *     *     v. 396 Boxes of Oranges.
Consent decree confirming- release of a portion of the product?
under bond, and the destruction of the remainder.    (F. & D. No.
16372.    I. S. Nos. 11008-t, 11009-t.    S. No. W-1073.)
On April 17, 1922, 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 condemnation?
of 396 boxes of oranges, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at?
Denver, Colo., consigned by the Randolph Marketing Co., from Highlands, Calif.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped from Highlands, Calif., on or about?
April 5, 1922, and transported from the State of California into the State of?
Colorado, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.?
A portion of the article was labeled in part: " Valencia. Randolph Special?
Randolph Fruit Company Redlands, California." The remainder of the article?
was labeled in part: " Valencia. Geranium Brand Randolph Marketing Com??
pany, California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, of decomposed?
oranges, resulting from frosting and freezing.
' On May 22, 1922, the Randolph Marketing Co., Los Angeles, Calif., claimant,?
having taken the product down under bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity?
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be sorted, and 262^ boxes?
of the said product having been released to the claimant and the remainder?
thereof having been destroyed, judgment by consent was entered finding the?
allegations of the libel to be true, ratifying and confirming the said disposition?
of the product, and ordering that the said claimant pay the costs of the pro??
ceedings.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.