13254. Adulteration of oranges.     U.  S. v.  200 Boxes  of Oranges.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under
bond.    (F. & D. No. 19818.    I. S. Nos. 21118-v, 21119-v.    S. No. W-1675.)
On February 21, 1925, 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 praying the seizure and
condemnation of 200 boxes of oranges, remaining in the original  unbroken
packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the
Mutual Orange Distributors, from Wilmington, Calif., February 8, 1925, and
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transported from the State of California into the State of Oregon, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled, 
in part: (Case) "Dale Redlands Orangedale Groves Inc. Redlands 
California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance, an inedible product, had been substituted wholly or in part for 
normal oranges of good commercial quality.
On February 28, 1925, the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, Los Angeles, 
Calif., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented 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 $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, condi- 
tioned in part that it be used in the manufacture of marmalade.
R. W. DXJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.