14689. Adulteration   of   chopped   apples.    U.   S.   v.   687   Bags   of   Chopped
Apples.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 21227.    I. S. No. 4291-x.    S. No. C-5201.)
On August 11, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
IMissouri, 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 687 bags of chopped apples, consigned by the Standard 
Apple Products, Inc., of Rochester, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped from Dupo, Ill., in part July 26 and in part July 31, 1926, and trans- 
ported from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, and charging 
-adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
-consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable 
^ substance.
On October 11, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.