11162.?Adulteration of oranges.    IT. S. v. 396 Boxes of Oranges.    Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under?
bond.    (P. & D. No. 15802.    I. S. No. 18618-t.    S. No. C-3450.)
On March 8, 1922, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict 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 un??
broken packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by the Peppers Fruit Co., from Redlands, Calif., February 18, 1922, and trans??
ported from the State of California into the State of Illinois, and charging?
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled?
in part: "Washington Navels Peppers Fruit Co. California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 9, 1922, the Peppers Fruit Co., claimant, having admitted the?
allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs?
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in con-?
?formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be sorted under?
the supervision of this department, the bad portion destroyed and the good?
portion delivered to the said claimant.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.