14994.?Adulteration  of  oranges.    XJ.  S.  -v.  396  Boxes  of  Oranges.     Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
21733.    I. S. No. 16407-x.    S. No. E-5962.)
On February 25, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Massa??
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and?
condemnation of 396 boxes of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by S. J.?
Sligh & Co., Orlando, Fla., and transported from the State of Florida into the?
State of Massachusetts, 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 libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 23, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
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.