11498. Adulteration of rice. IT. S. v. 189 Bass of Rice. Product ordered 
released nnder bond. (F. & D. No. 20584. I. S. No. 4817-x. S. No. 
E-5562.)
On November 7, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Porto 
Rico, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 189 bags of rice, at Mayaguez, P. R., alleging that the article 
had-been shipped by. Adolph Pfeffer & Co.. Beaumont, Tex., on or about July 
9, 1925, and transported from the State of Texas into the Territory of Porto 
Rico, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the^?eas6h that "it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid vegetable 
substance.
On December 14, 1925, Jose Gonzales Clemente & Co., Mayaguez, P. R.. 
having appeared as claimant for the_ property, judgment was entered, sustain- 
ing the allegations of the libel, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $750, conditioned in part that it be denatured so as to make it fit 
only for animal feed, said bond being further conditioned upon payment of 
the costs of the proceedings and the expense of supervising the cleaning of 
the rice.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.