14965.?Adulteration of oranges and tangerines.    V.  S. v. 338 Field  Crates
Oranges, et al.    Decrees  entered releasing products under bond.
(F. & D. Nos.  21761, 21762.    I.  S. Nos.  15460-x, 15464-x.    S. Nos.  C-5342,?
C-5343.)
On or about February 21 and 23,1927, respectively, the United States attorney?
for the Northern District of Alabama, acting upon reports by the Secretary?
of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district?
libels praying seizure and condemnation of 511 crates of oranges and 31 crates?
of tangerines, at Birmingham, Ala., alleging that the articles had been shipped?
by J. T. Futch, from Dade City, Fla., in part about February 16, 1927, and?
in part about February 19, 1927, and transported from the State of Florida?
into the State of Alabama, and charging adulteration in violation of the food?
and drugs act.
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed that it was composed of frost-damaged fruit.
It was alleged in the libels that the articles were adulterated, in that they?
consisted wholly or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
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On February 24, 1927, J. T. Futch, Dade City, Fla., having appeared as?
claimant for the property and it having been shown to the court that only?
portions of the said products were decomposed, decrees were entered, ordering?
that they be delivered to the claimant for the purpose of salvaging by removing?
and destroying the unfit fruit, upon the execution of bonds totaling $1,000, con??
ditioned upon the carrying out of the terms of the decrees, and that the por??
tions found by a representative of this department as fit for human consump??
tion be released.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.